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Originally Posted by Adder
I thought he was infallible?
Also, sounds to me like ol' frothy-lube as some confessing to do with all the pridefulness going on with his pope-doubting.
What's that? I'm not a Catholic and have no idea what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah. Carry on.
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Earnest answer to facetious question: he’s only protected from error when he speaks on particular topics, in particular ways. If he doesn’t say the magic words, “This teaching must be held by the whole church,” it’s just an opinion and can be disputed. So Santorum is right that press conference statements are not infallible. Ask GGG for details; for non-Catholics the best understanding is essentially that the Pope has declared further philosophical disputations about an issue to be unproductive. It’s a way of the presiding officer of a giant ongoing meeting to say “Moving on . . .”
