NOUN
- belief of the Roman Catholic Church that God protects the pope from error when he speaks about faith or morality
How To Use papal infallibility In A Sentence
- He was a strong supporter of the doctrine of papal infallibility and he drew up a postulatum in which he favoured a definition by implication in preference to an explicit affirmation of the dogma. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- I don't consider the Pope a cult leader (though Papal infallibility is not an idea that particularly appeals to me), but there are Cultish aspects to Catholicism. Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa - Boing Boing
- In 1870 the First Vatican Council announced the dogma of papal infallibility on matters of faith and morals.
- When the Papal Rescript was published in 1888, he publicly maintained that papal infallibility did not cover politics.
- These include belief in the Creed of the Apostles and adherence to the doctrine of papal infallibility.
- I mean what response could I expect if I went to the local baptist men's prayer breakfast arguing for papal infallibility? Rifle Shooting's 10 Most Significant Developments of the Decade
- Antiliberal, antiscientific, a foreign absolutist authority dictating to its half-educated adherents, Rome was given to such grotesqueries as the 1864 Syllabus of Errors and the 1870 declaration of papal infallibility.
- You don't,for example,have papal infallibility declared as a doctrine until the early twentieth century.
- But the solution would represent such a dramatic reversal of age-old Catholic doctrine as to undermine any pretense of papal infallibility.
- Papal infallibility is one of the main Protestant objections to Catholicism — yet, oddly enough, it was one of the things that gave Catholicism an unlikely avant-garde cachet from around the time of Pius IX's proclamation to, say, World War II. Archive 2007-12-01
