[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I am a Catholic and I think the idea of papal infallibility is complete crock of crap. And so do many other Catholics for that matter. Not all of us are mindless automatons marching mindlessly in lockstep with every whim that comes out of the Vatican these days. And some of us do actually read the Bible and view that as our primary source as the Word of God. Popes are human beings and are therefore subject to sin an error just like the rest of us mere mortals.

[DungeonMaster]

Popes are human beings and are therefore subject to sin an error just like the rest of us mere mortals.

And Mary.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Your comment betrays complete and utter ignorance of Dogma. It appears that you didn't even read the article -- do you realize that "whims of the Vatican" are not Doctrine?

Furthermore, no Catholic believes that papal infallibility is a crock. By definition, anyone who willfully and knowingly refuses assent to an article of Doctrine is anathema.

Whatever you are, you ain't Catholic except in your own mind.

[terycarl]

I am a Catholic and I think the idea of papal infallibility is complete crock of crap. And so do many other Catholics for that matter. Not all of us are mindless automatons marching mindlessly in lockstep with every whim that comes out of the Vatican these days

You have no concept whatsoever of what Infallibility is if you spew that trash. Whet goes on in an everyday setting in the vatican hasNOTHING AT ALL to do with infallibility.

The church teaches, and rightfully so, that when issueing a edict or official statement, ie;Ex Cathedra, Christ has promised that the statement will be without error.

The Immaculate Conception and the Assumption are the only infallible teaachings that I am aware of....if you don't want to believe in either of them, then join your favorite "Protestant" denomination and live your life according to their erroneous teachings....whatever.