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Originally Posted by dlishsguy
and on the subject on infallibility, can the pope make mistakes? if so, say we had a maniac pope who did bad things, does that not lead to staining the name of god since, god theoretically stamps a seal on the popes judgements?
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This one is a little more complicated. I'm not exactly positive on everything that is needed for the pope to speak infallably, even after reading the page im about to link, and having been through 14 1/2 years of catholic schooling LOL. The reason I'm confused is because there's a few different types of infallibility in different aspects of the church, so its a pain in the butt to explain and remember it all. The page im gonna link goes on forever trying to explain it.
But here you go if you want to look it up, its from that same page:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07790a.htm
I would post the quote from it but the page is really REALLY long, with off-shoot links to explain further the terms they use (like terms in Latin, and just regular words in the english language you would just never encounter any other time hehe). If you don't trust the link let me know and i'll post the stuff. I didnt get any pop-ups or anything.
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sorry, im not trying to be difficult, im not a christian, but im just curious.
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NP, i get to make some use out of all those years of schooling and uniform wearing.