A contemporary painting (1870) of the First Vatican Council, at which the doctrine of papal infallibility was declared (Wikimedia Commons) Papal infallibility, solemnly defined by the First Vatican ...

Historically, there were many expressions similar to “papal infallibility”, such as: papal authority, papal primacy, headship, papal supremacy, Roman primacy, etc. All of those can be traced back to ...

Popes can err if they are not making proclamations in the limited circumstances in which we believe papal infallibility applies to them, per the 1870 dogma. The pope is not some kind of inspired ...

Infallibility and heresy Not since certain American Protestants were publicly anti-Catholic, as older readers may remember them having been, have we read as many headlines with words like ...

The idea of papal infallibility has both baffled and amused Protestants at least since the First Vatican Council formally adopted the idea nearly 150 years ago (though the notion existed informally ...

Since the First Vatican Council of 1870, it has been a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church that the Pope, when he speaks ex cathedra on matters of faith or morals, is infallible. In the most ...

The origin and history of the concept of papal infallibility, which originates as far back as 519 CE. Though papal infallibility was only set in stone in 1870, the idea had been part of church history ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Anthony Akinwale. Sir, David Gardner’s “Pope Francis is bringing glasnost to the Vatican” (Comment, ...

The origin and history of the concept of papal infallibility, which originates as far back as 519 CE. Though papal infallibility was only set in stone in 1870, the idea had been part of church history ...