Friday, October 08, 2010

The Infallibility of the Pope — Basic Facts About an Essential Dogma


by Catholicism.org April 25th, 2005

(Excerpt)

Infallibility: The Dogma

Before proceeding any further, let us read the definition of papal infallibility as it was promulgated at the First Vatican Council in 1870:

Faithfully adhering to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith … we teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is when in discharge of the office of pastor and teacher of all Christians, by virture of his supreme Apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine regardging faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised him in Blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be endowed for degining doctrine regarding faith and morals; and that, therefore, such definitions of the Roman Pontiffs are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church.
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