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To: BlessedBeGod

See if His Popiness says it’s true then all the Roman Catholics have to accept it or maybe the whole doctrine of Popish Infallibility is in jeopardy.


3 posted on 04/07/2017 1:58:31 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Boiler Plate
See if His Popiness says it’s true then all the Roman Catholics have to accept it or maybe the whole doctrine of Popish Infallibility is in jeopardy.

Er, not. You might check up on exactly what it is that Papal Infallibility protects. It's not about every random thing that a Pope thinks or says.

9 posted on 04/07/2017 2:13:56 PM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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Pope Francis has not invoked papal infallibility at any point in his pontificate.

If you will review the doctrine of infallibility, you will see that it is used very infrequently --- the last time was in 1950 with Pope Pius XII's Munificentissimus Deus statement.

In 2005 Pope Benedict XVI remarked, "The Pope is not an oracle; he is infallible in very rare situations, as we know".

Pope John XXIII once stated it with a humorous twist: "I am only infallible if I speak infallibly but I shall never do that, so I am not infallible".`

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21 posted on 04/07/2017 6:02:01 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Point of Fact.)
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To: Boiler Plate

See, now you just ruined a perfectly good bash Francis thread with your dash of anti-Catholicism.


111 posted on 04/09/2017 5:51:52 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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