[metmom]

Hey, the Catholics are the ones who claim infallibility.

What’s the problem with expecting them to live up to the standards they set up for themselves?

[paladinan]

Hey, the Catholics are the ones who claim infallibility.

Perhaps you might be a bit more specific, and give some indication that you have even the *faintest* idea what you're talking about, here. As it stands, this statement of yours is (forgive me) as stupid-sounding as would be the statement: "Hey, let's see you drive your car across the Atlantic Ocean; you claimed that you could drive, right?"

I'm not sure how the idea that "the Catholic charism of infallibility has things known as 'parameters' by which it works" managed to escape you. Your statement couldn't be more off-base if you had looked up the word "infallibility" in Webster's Dictionary, took your favorite definition from the options there, assumed that the Catholic definition must mean neither more nor less than that exact definition, and used it to make your comment. Suffice it to say that it's a bit lacking.

What’s the problem with expecting them to live up to the standards they set up for themselves?

None, whatsoever. The problem comes in when some people expect us to live up to THEIR artificial straw-men; we're really under no obligation to do that.

Honestly: have you read the Catechism... or at least the bits about infallibility?