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infallibility

[in-fal-uh-bil-i-tee] / ɪnˌfæl əˈbɪl ɪ ti /
NOUN
reliability
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NOUN
perfection
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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

All too often, the justice’s belief in his own infallibility leads him to treat good-faith disagreement with dismissive arrogance.

From Slate Jun. 23, 2025

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

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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