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To: Alex Murphy

Therefore,
faithfully adhering to the tradition received from the beginning of the christian faith,
to the glory of God our saviour,
for the exaltation of the catholic religion and
for the salvation of the christian people,
with the approval of the sacred council,
we teach and define as a divinely revealed dogma that
when the Roman pontiff speaks EX CATHEDRA,
that is, 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 concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole church,
he possesses,
by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter,
that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals.
Therefore, such definitions of the Roman pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the church, irreformable.


18 posted on 05/01/2014 5:31:42 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Alex Murphy

For the record, that’s the precise definition of papal infallibility from Vatican I.

Now that you know that definition, any further attempts to confuse infallibility with impeccability or clairvoyance shall be known to be deceit.


28 posted on 05/01/2014 6:19:33 AM PDT by dangus
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