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    Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope when he speaks ex cathedra...
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  • Look up infallibility in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Infallibility refers to an inability to be wrong. It can be applied within a specific domain...
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    Ultramontanism (category Papal primacy)
    primacy in the Roman pontiffs, the meaning and power of the papal primacy, and Papal infallibility. [W]e teach and declare that, by divine ordinance, the Roman...
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    decree on justification and the First Vatican Council's definition of papal infallibility. The Catholic Church's magisterium is exercised without this solemnity...
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    First Vatican Council (category 1869 establishments in the Papal States)
    Italian Capture of Rome. Its best-known decision is its definition of papal infallibility. The council's main purpose was to clarify Catholic doctrine in response...
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  • very few Protestants believe in the infallibility of ecumenical councils, and these usually restrict infallibility to the Christological statements of...
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    Pope (redirect from Papal)
    time, culminating in 1870 with the proclamation of the dogma of papal infallibility for rare occasions when the pope speaks ex cathedra—literally 'from...
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  • the reaction produced the concept of papal infallibility whereas, in the evangelical churches, the infallibility of the Bible was asserted. "Both movements...
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    Donation of Constantine Eastern Orthodox opposition to papal supremacy Papal infallibility Papal primacy Paragraph 882 of the Catechism of the Catholic...
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    Roman pontiffs, the definition of the papal primacy as a papal supremacy, and Papal infallibility – infallible teaching authority (magisterium) of the...
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  • Catholic Church over certain doctrines, primarily concerned with papal authority and infallibility. Some of these groups, especially in the Netherlands, had...
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  • magisterium having an infallible character, whereas the First Vatican Council defined a dogma on the infallibility of the extraordinary papal magisterium, in...
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    this infallible dogma raised a question: Can a pope make such decisions without the authority of the bishops? This doctrine of papal infallibility, enhancing...
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    churches." This council also affirmed the dogma of papal infallibility, deciding that the "infallibility" of the Christian community extended to the pope...
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    (ordinis et consociationis). The Roman (ultramontane) doctrine of papal infallibility is not accepted by the other Catholic Churches and, moreover, has...
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  • led to the definition by the Roman Catholic Church of the dogma of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council. Gallicanism tended to restrain the...
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  • Conciliarism (category Papal primacy)
    of Christ on earth, and has the authority to issue infallible statements. This papal infallibility was invoked in Pope Pius IX's 1854 definition of the...
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    Catholic priest and church historian who rejected the dogma of papal infallibility. Among his writings which proved controversial, his criticism of...
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  • The papal deposing power was the most powerful tool of the political authority claimed by and on behalf of the Roman Pontiff, in medieval and early modern...
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    significance to the pentarchy as the five pillars of the Church upholding its infallibility: it was held to be impossible that all five should at the same time...
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    two churches are ecclesiastical. Principal among them is the meaning of papal primacy within any future unified church. The Orthodox insist that it should...
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  • 1874. Gladstone was outraged at the Vatican Council's decree of papal infallibility and set about to refute it. The pamphlet sold 150,000 copies by the...
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    the concept of incorruptible innocence, immunity from sin, or moral infallibility in Islamic theology, and which is especially prominent in Shia Islam...
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  • First Vatican Council. The Council, in turn, proclaimed the dogma of papal infallibility. In Syllabus Errorum, the Church condemned as false some 80 philosophical...
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  • dogmatic and a small number of decrees promulgated by popes exercising papal infallibility (for examples, see Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary)...
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  • Church in the 1870s because of the promulgation of the dogma of papal infallibility as promoted by the First Vatican Council of 1869–1870. The term 'Old...
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    Press. Tierney, Brian (1972). Origins of papal infallibility, 1150–1350: a study on the concepts of infallibility, sovereignty and tradition in the Middle...
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  • Anglican publication to describe 1870, the year in which the dogma of papal infallibility was defined in the Catholic Church. The expression was brought to...
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    This belief is traditionally associated with concepts of the biblical infallibility and the internal consistency of the Bible. At 2 Tim 3:16 (NRSV), it...
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  • prior to the First Vatican Council, that papal infallibility was not restricted to a small number of papal statements but applied ipso facto (by virtue...
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