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
The arrogant certitude with which he announces his conclusions certainly suggests that he has embraced a posture of infallibility that leaves no room for good-faith disagreement.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025
North Korea is the world's most isolated country, a state based around the infallibility of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and a deep suspicion of the outside world.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024
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
So much laid to waste from the miscalculation of infallibility in the face of a planet’s revolt.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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