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  2. Papal infallibility - Wikipedia

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    Examples of Catholics who before the First Vatican Council disbelieved in papal infallibility are French abbé François-Philippe Mesenguy (1677–1763), who wrote a catechism denying the infallibility of the pope, [78] and the German Felix Blau (1754–1798), who as professor at the University of Mainz criticized infallibility without a ...

  3. Infallibility of the Church - Wikipedia

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    Such infallible papal decrees must be made by the pope, in his role as leader of the whole Church, and they must be definitive decisions on matters of faith and morals which are binding on the whole Church. An infallible decree by a pope is often referred to as an ex cathedra statement. This type of infallibility falls under the authority of ...

  4. List of papal bulls - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of papal bulls, listed by the year in which each was issued. The decrees of some papal bulls were often tied to the circumstances of time and place, and may have been adjusted, attenuated, or abrogated by subsequent popes as situations changed.

  5. First Vatican Council - Wikipedia

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    Pope Pius defined as dogma the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in 1854. [11] However, the proposal to define papal infallibility itself as dogma met with resistance, not because of doubts about the substance of the proposed definition, but because some considered it inopportune to take that step at that time. [11]

  6. Popes during the Age of Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Seven months later, on 18 July 1870, the prelates assembled in St Peter's accepted an uncompromising dogma - that the pope, when speaking from his throne on a matter of faith or morals, is inspired by God and is therefore infallible. Papal infallibility was merely the most striking example of the authoritarian stance now being established. It ...

  7. Ecclesiastical differences between the Catholic Church and ...

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    Unlike the pope in the Catholic Church, no central individual or figure has the absolute (and "infallible") last word on church doctrine and administration. In practice, this has sometimes led to divisions among Greek, Russian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian Orthodox churches, as no central authority can serve as a rallying point for various internal ...

  8. Opinion - On Harris vs. Trump, Pope Francis is not infallible

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    Pope Francis has criticized both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris for their views, ... papal infallibility has proven to be a tricky business. As adopted, it says a pope “cannot err,” or can ...

  9. Old Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The convention decided to form the "Old Catholic Church" in order to distinguish its members from what they saw as the novel teaching in the Roman Catholic dogma of papal infallibility. Although it had continued to use the Roman Rite , from the middle of the 18th century the Dutch Old Catholic See of Utrecht had increasingly used the vernacular ...