NOUN
- the Vatican Council in 1869-1870 that proclaimed the infallibility of the pope when speaking ex cathedra
How To Use First Vatican Council In A Sentence
- In 1870 the First Vatican Council announced the dogma of papal infallibility on matters of faith and morals.
- If such a philosopher were to say, "There is a conflict between the teachings of the First Vatican Council and the science of philosophy on the ability of human reason to demonstrate the existence of God," we could easily point out to him that there are other schools of philosophy, such as Thomism, that have no such conflict, and that he is wrong to claim for his own school the mantle of philosophy as a whole. Economic Science and Catholic Social Teaching
- The promulgation of the infallibility of the Pontiff and the universality of his episcopate reinforced this ultramontane dogma at the First Vatican Council.
