[Magdalen] Pope and Kim Davis.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Sibyl>This is not what most Protestants (not that they believe in it) think
that it means, and it seems, most imprecise, careless, or ignorant Roman
Catholics think, which is infallible like Fundamentalists believe that
the Bible is infallible.


Yes! I agree that is the 'nut' of what *most* people believe.
Lynn

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From: "Sibyl Smirl" <polycarpa3 at ckt.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 11:38 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Pope and Kim Davis.

> I'm a little too sleepy to look it up with the help of google, but I 
> remember (and too sleepy to be accurate on the remembering, either) 
> something about there being several criteria for an Infallible 
> pronouncement, and that there have only been about five of those 
> altogether, ever, that fit the criteria.
>
> This is not what most Protestants (not that they believe in it) think that 
> it means, and it seems, most imprecise, careless, or ignorant Roman 
> Catholics think, which is infallible like Fundamentalists believe that the 
> Bible is infallible.
>
>
> On 10/1/15 11:24 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>> One thing that fascinated me about the press coverage given the pope was
>> that the word infallible kept popping up without any 'actual' context.
>> The pope is not generally considered infallible, only some of his
>> pronouncements, usually written out at great length, might be so
>> considered and they are declared as such IIRC (that would be if I
>> remember correctly, not If I'm RC... as I no longer am <g>) ...
>> encyclicals, I think they are called.
>
>
> -- 
> Sibyl Smirl
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