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To: fishtank

Is it really maintained by Catholics that their Popes are infallible? If so I may have a doctrinal difference with my Catholic friends?


3 posted on 07/17/2021 7:04:07 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: AndyTheBear
Is it really maintained by Catholics that their Popes are infallible?

In extremely limited circumstances, the last one was 1950. This canard gets very old.

8 posted on 07/17/2021 7:15:14 AM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: AndyTheBear
Is it really maintained by Catholics that their Popes are infallible?

Yes, especially when it comes to things like global warming and EUA vaccines. 🤡

13 posted on 07/17/2021 7:25:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: AndyTheBear
Is it really maintained by Catholics that their Popes are infallible?

Several years ago, a devout Catholic told me that the pope ( John Paul II at the time) was infallible and could do no wrong.

15 posted on 07/17/2021 7:27:20 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: AndyTheBear

The doctrine of papal infallibility means that the Pope cannot err or teach error when he speaks on matters of faith and morals ex cathedra.

They almost never speak Ex Cathedra. The last example of an ex cathedra decree took place in 1950, when Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary as an article of faith.


27 posted on 07/17/2021 9:17:44 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: AndyTheBear

The Pope is not infallible about all doctrine. There arer strictures on when the Pope is considered infallible in the Church.


50 posted on 07/18/2021 10:00:44 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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