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Thread #127011   Message #2839061
Posted By: beeliner
14-Feb-10 - 01:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: At last a Pope talks some sense
Subject: RE: BS: At last a Pope talks some sense
Here is what I understand to be the case..I suggest your beliefs are out-of-step with the course and teachings of the current RC church

Well, most of that is reasonably accurate, if I had more time I could break it down point by point, but firstly, you seem to define papal infallibility quite broadly when it is in fact quite narrow.

Papal encyclicals, for example, while obviously regarded as authoritative by Catholics, do not meet the requirements of infallibility.

Secondly, I am not giving my beliefs but what I understand the Church's positions to be. If you think I've stated some of those positions incorrectly, you might be right.

Feel free to offer specific corrections.