Infallibility: untenable on every ground. (Catholic Church rulings)(Column)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: December 29, 1995| Author: Ruether, Rosemary Radford | Copyright information

Rejection of the notion of infallibility is not a reason to leave the Catholic Church. All institutions have error and sin even, unfortunately, the church. Reactions to the infallibility of the ban on female ordination has opened wide this question for debate. This is right.

Thirty years ago I clarified in my own mind that I did not believe in the infallibility at the pope or the magisterium of the Roman Catholic church. I also decided that this was not a sufficient reason for leavi...

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