(July 29, 2014 at 7:04 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: What a convenient escape hatch. He's only infallible on the subjects that OTHER people say he's infallible on.What?
The Catholic Church did not issue a proclamation that Pope Francis is fallible on social issues last year. That's been the rule for over a century.
And there isn't a list of "subjects" that the Pope is infallible on. The Pope can claim to be infallible on anything, but it has to be a statement, first of all, and there is a system that he has to go through.
And now you're saying that he has to defend his infallibility. If he wanted to defend it, he wouldn't use it. There isn't an escape hatch. If your argument even made sense, the Catholic Church would have backpedaled for miles by now.
