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ooops, sorry for the double post. my 'puter said it had "timed out" so I hit post again

I hate when that happens.

INFALLIBILITY. Freedom from error in teaching the universal Church in matters of faith or morals

So was Pope Urban XIII free from error when he condemned Galileo?

Was Pope Steven VI free from error when he prosecuted Formosus?

In earlier times, however, things were sometimes quite different. Eleven hundred years ago the papacy was going through an era which, John Farrow tells us in his Pageant of the Popes (1942), "shroud[ed] the papacy with gloom and shame." The period from around the middle of the 9th century to around the middle of the 10th century

*That period produced this...

Proposueramus quidem 865 ad

Since, according to the canons, where there is a greater authority, the judgment of the inferiors must be brought to it to be annulled, or to be substantiated, certainly it is evident that the judgment of the Apostolic See, of whose authority there is none greater, is to be refused by no one.

*And even after all that "gloom and shame" we still have the Church standing triumphant over all its enemies who still attack it every single day from all directions, forgetting that Jesus Himself told a former famous persecuter that to attack the Church is to attack Jesus Himself

And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, And asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues: that if he found any men and women of this way, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. And as he went on his journey, it came to pass that he drew nigh to Damascus; and suddenly a light from heaven shined round about him. And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him:Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

*But, when has Scripture EVER stopped sola scripturists from attacking Jesus?