Thanks for this, Will. Helpful for me in clearing up some objections while I am considering conversion to Catholicism.
A follow up question: what is stopping a pope who is heretical in his private beliefs from defining those beliefs infallibly from the chair of St. Peter? Is there any possibility of this?
Thanks for this, Will. Helpful for me in clearing up some objections while I am considering conversion to Catholicism.
A follow up question: what is stopping a pope who is heretical in his private beliefs from defining those beliefs infallibly from the chair of St. Peter? Is there any possibility of this?
The Holy Spirit. Stopping popes from teaching error in faith and morals is exactly what infallibility does.
Understood. Thanks, Will.