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Sidney
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Topic: Infallability Posted: 09-Jul-2015 at 19:35 |
Why is the Pope considered infallible by the Catholic Church?
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Centrix Vigilis
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Posted: 10-Jul-2015 at 05:25 |
''The Catholic Church’s teaching on papal infallibility is one which is generally misunderstood by those outside the Church. In particular, Fundamentalists and other "Bible Christians" often confuse the charism of papal "infallibility" with "impeccability." They imagine Catholics believe the pope cannot sin. Others, who avoid this elementary blunder, think the pope relies on some sort of amulet or magical incantation when an infallible definition is due. ''
continues@ http://www.catholic.com/tracts/papal-infallibility
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Posted: 10-Jul-2015 at 10:21 |
I thought the Catholic Church did believe the Pope to be infallible? If so, why do they believe so?
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Posted: 10-Jul-2015 at 10:41 |
''Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church that states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error "When, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine''.
they do.
iow. when it comes to his 'authority' to enact or maintain doctrine or decide questions of faith and or scriptural interp... He is infallible.
Based on the 'original promise' of Christ to Saint Peter in his 'original appointment' as head of the church. Ie. he is the spiritual and temporal leader of the church on earth.
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Centrix Vigilis
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Posted: 10-Jul-2015 at 11:28 |
For further clarification or instruction...See: Archbishop Vincent Gerard Nichols. Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. London.
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Posted: 10-Jul-2015 at 16:59 |
Do you have his e-mail or phone number?
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Centrix Vigilis
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Posted: 11-Jul-2015 at 00:29 |
See the contact info here:
http://www.westminstercathedral.org.uk/contact.php?low_graphics=Y
Send them my regards as well.
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Posted: 11-Jul-2015 at 14:30 |
Cheers. Will he know you as Centrix Vigilis? Seems a bit pointless to give him your regards if he won't recognise who you are.
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Posted: 12-Jul-2015 at 05:55 |
Merely id me as a brother in 'faith'... from the high and lonely lonesome of the Llano. If he can't figure it out then he doesn't need to use the two barred cross.
amen.
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Posted: 12-Jul-2015 at 18:54 |
Okay; a fellow Catholic.
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Posted: 12-Jul-2015 at 20:26 |
The Pope can teach infallibly by his sole authority.
During his pontificate, Pope Pius IX, serving from 1846 to 1878, convened the First Vatican Council in 1869, which decreed papal infallibility.
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Posted: 13-Jul-2015 at 19:49 |
The Vatican Council solemnly taught the doctrine of papal infallibilty in the following terms:
"The Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is to say, when in the exercise of his office of pastor and teacher of all Christians he, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, defines that a doctrine on faith or morals is to be held by the whole Church, by the assistance of God promised to turn him in the person of Blessed Peter, has that infallibility with which it was the will of Our Divine Redeemer that His Church should be furnished in defining a doctrine on faith or morals."
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