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To: BlatherNaut

If a Pope is ‘infallible’ then how come this one is going against all the other ones?


54 posted on 10/22/2013 10:29:03 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: CodeToad
Papal infallibility means that the pope is protected from error when he "proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals" (CCC 891). This does not mean that he is impeccable (incapable of sin) or inerrant (incapable of error).

http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/does-papal-infallibility-mean-the-pope-is-perfect-or-inerrant

58 posted on 10/22/2013 10:39:18 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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