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To: Boiler Plate
Why don't you just look it up?

Here's Wikipedia

According to the teaching of the First Vatican Council and Catholic tradition, the conditions required for ex cathedra papal teaching are as follows:

For a teaching by a pope or ecumenical council to be recognized as infallible, the teaching must:

Each of those phrases is constitutive for infallibility. If one condition is missing, what you have is a non-infallible statement.

22 posted on 04/07/2017 6:12:54 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Point of Fact.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; Campion; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; boatbums; CynicalBear; daniel1212; dragonblustar; ...

So basically, anything else he says, or any other Catholic leader says, is up for grabs.

A Catholic can take it or leave it as they see fit and have their own personal interpretation of Catholicism.

1.2 billion versions of Catholicism.


24 posted on 04/07/2017 7:21:28 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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