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in·fal·li·ble
/ inˈfaləbəl/
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adj.
incapable of making mistakes or being wrong:
doctors are not infallible.
∎
never failing; always effective:
infallible cures.
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(in the Roman Catholic Church) credited with papal infallibility:
for an encyclical to be infallible the pope must speak ex cathedra.
DERIVATIVES:
in·fal·li·bly
/ -blē/ adv.
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Infallibility I & II. (papal infallibility)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 1/26/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...conditions, the pope can exercise "that infallibility which the Divine Redeemer willed to...on his church." In other words, "infallibility" is not a personal attribute of the...stating that "the pope can exercise infallibility in specific circumstances" implies...
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Papal Infallibility: A Protestant Evaluation of an Ecumenical Issue
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Papal Infallibility: A Protestant Evaluation of an Ecumenical...dialogue's Teaching Authority and Infallibility in the Church (Minneapolis, 1978...topics and left the neuralgic topic of infallibility on the agenda for the future. In...
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Shades of infallibility.(Papal Infallability: A Potestant Evaluation of an Ecumenical Issue)(Book review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; PAPAL INFALLIBILITY: A PROTESTANT EVALUATION OF AN ECUMENICAL...that the Catholic doctrine of papal infallibility represents a major stumbling block...theologians whose interpretations of papal infallibility range from maximalist to minimalist...
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Infallibility may be answer, but it may also be question.(on the infallibility of the Catholic church)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 4/12/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...version of the 10 points I proposed. 1. Infallibility, which means, literally, immunity...God is infallible. Therefore, if infallibility is attributed to the church or to any...According to official Catholic teaching on infallibility, given at the First Vatican Council...
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Infallibility: untenable on every ground. (Catholic Church rulings)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 12/29/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...mind that I did not believe in the infallibility at the pope or the magisterium of the...rejects such a central thesis as papal infallibility, isn't it necessary to leave the...declared that his own rejection of infallibility had brought him to this conclusion...
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Infallibility: the argument from silence.(Women's Ordination/Infallibility)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 12/15/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...handed attempt to smuggle the note of infallibility in where it does not belong give renewed...spur renewed critical discussion of infallibility a' nd when it may be said to characterize...then why was something as important as infallibility added as an afterthought to already...
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Power and the Papacy: The People and Politics Behind the Doctrine of Infallibility.
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 11/14/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...and development of the notion of the infallibility of church teachings. The result is...that council's definition of the infallibility of certain ex cathedra exercises of...controversies, by the ascription of infallibility to papal teaching with regard to the...
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Jeremy Bentham on fallibility and infallibility.
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Ideas; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...fallibility, and against the assumption of infallibility, comprise a justly famous dimension...premised upon the assertion of infallibility--will hold a belief "in a rigid...Mill's account of fallibility and infallibility may reflect the strong influence of...
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Sic's infallibility bug won't go away.(amusing quotations from children, and others)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 12/3/1999; 700+ words
; ...this might not help in your search for infallibility," writes May A. Keith from Tampa...the kind of thing that cries out for infallibility. The point is, Sic's suspect infallibility won't go away. Readers may recall...
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How to have infallibility without a pope.
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/17/2000; 700+ words
; ...last year, we briefly denied our infallibility. Strictly between ourselves, we goofed...yet recovered. Not for nothing is infallibility in the air. Like it or not, popes...articles one reads on the status of infallibility during a papal interregnum. Sr. Clarice...
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infallibility
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
infallibility , in Christian thought, exemption...inerrancy. Protestants widely reject infallibility of the church. The Orthodox Eastern...infallible. Roman Catholics hold that the infallibility of the church is vested in the pope...
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Infallibility
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Infallibility. Inability to err, predicated by Roman Catholics of the Church or...institutions rather than of the statements they make. In Islam, infallibility (Arab., ʿiṣmah ) is predicated by all Muslims...
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papal infallibility
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
papal infallibility Roman Catholic doctrine according to which the Pope, under certain conditions, cannot make a mistake in formal statements on...
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First Vatican Council
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...enunciation of the doctrine of papal infallibility . Convening and Meetings The council...Europe that the enunciation of papal infallibility as a dogma was the purpose of the council...persons denounced the enunciation of infallibility as a dogma. Chief of these were Johann...
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ecumenical council
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...error. This is a manifestation of the infallibility of the teaching church, and papal infallibility is compared to it in the definition published by the First Vatican Council (see infallibility ). Two famous councils that claimed...
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