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[lilinah@earthlink.net]

Adamantius wrote:
>Brought up as a Catholic, and accepting most of what the Catholic Church
>teaches, after doing a fair amount of comparative religious study,
>soul-searching, and critical thinking, with the exception of accepting
>the concept of the infallibility of certain elderly Poles and their
>alleged ability to know right from wrong better than I do.

Pope Pius IX, who had the longest pontificate (1846-78) in Catholic 
history, summoned the First Vatican Council (1869-70), which endorsed 
papal infallibility, no doubt at his behest. Before that, Papal 
infallibility was not a sure thing, although, of course, Vatican I 
justified it with doctrine, and passages of Scripture. So it doesn't 
have such an old history and perhaps it can be overturned :-) It 
certainly didn't exist in Adamantius's day - although it may have 
been debated once in a while.

Anahita