From: Walter Hicks (wallyshoes@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 14:48:09 EDT
Robert Schneider wrote:
>
> The declaration of papal infallibility, that is, that when speaking from the
> Chair of Peter on matters of faith and morals, the Pontiff, inspired by the
> Holy Spirit, speaks without error, was not declared by any pope, but rather
> by the First Vatican Council in 1870.
Thanks for that correction. I was not paying close attention to the heading on
the article.
> I might add, though, that the Pope at
> the time, Pius IX, lobbied heavily for this declaration among the bishops in
> council, going, it is said, to rather great lengths with his largess to
> insure a majority vote. Since that time only two papal declarations falling
> under the infallibility rule have been issued, both regarding the Virgin
> Mary, and both enshrining as dogma matters of popular belief. They are
> belief in the Immaculate Conception and in the Assumption of the Virgin (the
> latter in 1950). Recent attempts by the conservative Cardinal Ratzinger,
> head of the Congregation for the Faith, to characterize certain
> pronouncements of Pope John Paul II, as falling within the domain of
> infallibilty, e.g., the prohibition against the ordination of women to the
> priesthood, have been ignored or dismissed by a large body of Catholic
> opinion, including theological, and are not likely to stand the test of
> time.
I had thought that there also were 2 "infallible" declarations regarding the
necessity of being subject to the Roman Pontiff as a necessity for salivation.
(Boniface VII -- Unam Sanctam and Pius IV--- Qui pluribus). Is this an error?
-- =================================== Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>In any consistent theory, there must exist true but not provable statements. (Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic If you have already found the truth without it. (G.K. Chesterton) ===================================
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