I'm siding with rexbecca here. If these infallible announcements are so rare - I think you said a dozen of them in two millennia? - what is the point of Il Papa the rest of the time? There's been many, many popes over the centuries; at the rate you suggest, they cannot all have been necessary to make such announcements. What were the others needed for?
For extra credit: what does it say about the 'holy spirit' that it requires a single mouthpiece to relay its "inspirations"?
For extra credit: what does it say about the 'holy spirit' that it requires a single mouthpiece to relay its "inspirations"?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'