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Papal infallibility is often misunderstood. Here’s what it means—and what it doesn’t.

A contemporary painting (1870) of the First Vatican Council, at which the doctrine of papal infallibility was declared (Wikimedia Commons) Papal infallibility, solemnly defined by the First Vatican ...
National Catholic Register

Pastor Aeternus’ Real Gem — It’s Not Papal Infallibility

COMMENTARY: Although the 150-year-old document affirmed the definition of papal infallibility, that does not touch the daily life of the Church in the same way as does the affirmation of the universal ...
National Catholic Reporter

Quinn's examination of Vatican I and infallibility is his final gift

At the meeting of the U.S. bishops this week, one face, always lively and spry, with the elfin look of a man who has just thought of a bon mot, was noticeably missing. On June 22, San Francisco ...
National Catholic Register

Assuming Infallibility

A good illustration of how papal infallibility actually works is in the comparatively recent definition of the assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There’s a scene in Brideshead Revisited in which ...
National Catholic Reporter

Infallibility — Hans Küng appeals to Pope Francis

Next week, Hans Küng, the Catholic priest and Swiss theologian, will mark his 88th birthday. The fifth volume of his complete works, titled Infallibility, has just become available from the German ...