Popes can err if they are not making proclamations in the limited circumstances in which we believe papal infallibility applies to them, per the 1870 dogma. The pope is not some kind of inspired ...

COMMENTARY: As the Catholic Church marks the 150th anniversary of Pastor Aeternus, it is an occasion for us to be grateful for the gift of the teaching authority of the Church, especially that of the ...

Protestants who reject biblical infallibility renounce the formal principle of the Reformation, said the retiring president of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dr. Gordon H. Clark. They have no ...

There have been many attacks on the Bible down through the ages because the Bible condemns too much of what men love to do. Without the Bible, one can do virtually anything he wants to do. Man wants ...

The origin and history of the concept of papal infallibility, which originates as far back as 519 CE. Though papal infallibility was only set in stone in 1870, the idea had been part of church history ...

Next week, Hans Küng, the Catholic priest and Swiss theologian, will mark his 88th birthday. The fifth volume of his complete works, titled Infallibility, has just become available from the German ...

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With this incisive, illuminating book, Martin, a professor of religious studies at Yale University, engages the question needling most contemporary skeptics of a Christian background: how can anyone ...