Infallibility: the argument from silence.(Women's Ordination/Infallibility)(Column)

National Catholic Reporter | December 15, 1995| | Copyright

Sometimes the unintended consequences of behavior are the very opposite of what the behavior was instituted to achieve. Unintended good consequences may well flow from recent Vatican attempts to declare settled for all time the question of women's ordination.

Not only will this heavy-handed attempt to smuggle the note of infallibility in where it does not belong give renewed impetus to discussion of priesthood for women, it may also spur renewed critical discussion of infallibility a' nd when it may be said to characterize church teaching. Many issues call for sustained ...

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