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Papal Infallibility Is a Problem for the Catholic Church
Here’s one of the many reasons Pope Benedict XVI hilariously abdicating his throne is a big deal:
Among the many beliefs that members of the Catholic church hold is one of “papal infallibility.” This means that if you’re a Catholic, you do whatever the pope says. Pope says birth control’s the work of the devil, you say it too. Pope hates gay marriage, that’s your opinion as well. Pope only wants people to sing that shitty song by fun. at karaoke, his will be done. The papacy is not the place for debates or democracy. He’s the Godfather, and all Catholics are Luca Brasi.
This belief in a pope’s infallibility is relatively new, only coming into official definition during the First Vatican Council of 1870. So Benedict’s resignation is the first instance the church has had to deal with the possibility of two people holding infallibility at the same time. The whole thing is, well, troublesome. You certainly can’t have two people running around with infallibility. If they ever said sentences containing different words you’d theologically get yourself into one of those time-traveler-meeting-their-younger-self rip in the fabric of space-time scenarios. So the church took the easy way out: “Don’t worry,” they said “we’re just going to pass along infallibility to the next one.”
Now this may not seem like a big deal, especially to those of us living in places where we vote people out of power all the time. Except we’re not talking about someone making political decisions here. We’re talking about a person who was put in the position because God deemed them worthy. We’re talking about someone in charge of the moral conduct of 1.1 billion people. Now, all of a sudden if this person’s unimpeachable authority is impeachable, it kind of cheapens the whole thing. This is but one of the innumerable chips and cracks in the papal armor that are going to make it extremely hard to take the next guy seriously, no matter how much the College of Cardinals make sure they don’t pick someone who looks like pure evil this time around.
http://www.vice.com/read/dogmageddon-pope-says-nope
2013-02-20 09:53:42
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-papal-infallibility-is-a-problem-for-the-catholic-church
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Actually no it does not mean that Catholics have to do what the Pope says.
The doctrine of Papal Infallibility refers strictly to those times when the Pope speaks Ex Cathedra and is making a decision on or interpretation of matters of Church Doctrine.