--- [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 12-19-1999 6:36:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > Isn't
> > > it
> > > stated in the doctrine of infallibility the pope is right and
> has
> > > always been
> > > right?
>
> Wasn't this doctrine adopted fairly recently? Or, when does it date
> from?
No to all the above. The doctrine of papal infallibility was
promulgated at the first Vatican Council in 1870 and states that:
"The Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra (that is, when -
fulfilling the office of Pastor and Teacher of all Christians - on is
supreme Apostolical authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith
or moral to be held by the Universal Church), through the divine
assistance promised him in blessed Peter, is endowed with that
infallibility, with which the Divine Redeemer has willed that His
Church - in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals - should be
equipped; And therefore, that such definintions of the Roman Pontiff of
themselves - and not by virtue of the consent of the Church - are
irreformable."
Since then, the Popes have made only one infallible statement, that
defining the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1950. No such
statement was made at any time covered by this list, and the doctrine
is therefore irrelevant to any subject which might conceivably be
raised on the list.
Oriens.
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