infallibility

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Infallibility is a religious doctrine in the Roman Catholic faith; it is not a scientific principle and it is certainly not a defining characteristic of a professional epidemiologist or public health professional.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2020

Infallibility is a characteristic, shared to a great degree, of the United States Supreme Court and the papacy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2013

Steven Click Elmira, N. Y. Faith and Infallibility It is with a growing feeling of dismay, alongside a real sense of amusement to see in your story "Was Vatican I Rigged?"

From Time Magazine Archive

I think that I know modern church history fairly well, but I never heard or read of even one "Roman Catholic Bishop" who did not accept the doctrine of Papal Infallibility.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as Papal Infallibility implied necessarily the doctrine of the Pope's dominion over monarchs and governments, which was formally abjured—e.g., in the Irish clerical seminary of Maynooth—the Infallibilist theory was supposed to be shelved also.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von