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Infallibility   /ɪnfˌælɪbˈɪlɪti/   Listen
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Infallibility  n.  The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. "Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty."
Papal infallibility (R. C. Ch.), the dogma that the pope can not, when acting in his official character of supreme pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian faith or rule of morals, to be held by the church. This was decreed by the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican, July 18, 1870.






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"Infallibility" Quotes from Famous Books



... found it good policy to maintain this character for infallibility with my staff. It is true, perhaps, that I ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward

... it was only the want of power that prevented the Catholics from renewing the fires of Smithfield and the terrors of the Inquisition. It was believed that the infallibility and supremacy of the Pope bound the Catholic citizen to yield unquestioning obedience to the Catholic clergy in matters civil and political, as well as spiritual. There was a natural and very strong ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

... Word of God, is much disputed, as all questions must needs bee, that are not well stated. For they make not the question to be, "Why we Beleeve it," but "How wee Know it;" as if Beleeving and Knowing were all one. And thence while one side ground their Knowledge upon the Infallibility of the Church, and the other side, on the Testimony of the Private Spirit, neither side concludeth what it pretends. For how shall a man know the Infallibility of the Church, but by knowing first the Infallibility ...
— Leviathan • Thomas Hobbes

... in the House of Lords last night. It is a really terrible place for the unaccustomed. Frigid impatience and absolute goodwill, combined with a thorough conviction of the infallibility of laymen (if not too religious) on all sacred subjects, are the tone, morale, and reason, of the House as a living being. My whole self-possession departs, and ejection from the House seems the best thing which could happen to one."—Archbishop ...
— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell

... believe in her heaven, her purgatory or her hell, nor do I believe that her Masses move God to release souls from torment. I do not believe in her powers to pardon and curse. I do not believe in her claims of infallibility. But—" ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking


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