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To: 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

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.

43 posted on 04/16/2015 6:45:26 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: terycarl

Actually the dogma of Papal Infallibility has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus nor is based on anything which can be found in the Bible. The dogma was instituted rather late in Church History, the late 1800s. Here was it said in Wikipedia.com:

Pope Pius IX-—”During his pontificate, he convened the First Vatican Council (1869-70), which decreed papal infallibility, but the council was cut short due to the loss of the Papal States.”

“Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, meaning Mary was conceived without original sin.”

Sorry to annoy you with the facts. I believe in most Catholic teachings but I never knew that in order to be a member of the Church, you had to agree with each and every single doctrine or dogma without question. That type of rigidity and unquestioning is indeed a very scary and authoritarian—even totalitarian mindset which would make it tantamount to a cult.


53 posted on 04/17/2015 9:22:20 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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