infallibility
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Later, recounting his fruitless sessions with his hopeless catechumen, Father Mowbray tells the matriarch how he tried to explain to Mottram the concept of papal infallibility:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
He has only become more insulated and more convinced of his own infallibility since then.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
Küng, who brought Ratzinger to Tübingen, would later be barred from teaching by his former colleague, after he rejected papal infallibility.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2022
Most famously, Ratzinger helped censure his friend Hans Kung, a Swiss theologian skeptical of the concept of papal infallibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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