COMMENTARY: As the Catholic Church marks the 150th anniversary of Pastor Aeternus, it is an occasion for us to be grateful for the gift of the teaching authority of the Church, especially that of the ...

Infallibility and heresy Not since certain American Protestants were publicly anti-Catholic, as older readers may remember them having been, have we read as many headlines with words like ...

Most of our problems today boil down to one root cause. Far too many people consider themselves, their ideas, their beliefs, their faith to be the one and only Truth. This fundamentalist way of ...

The idea of papal infallibility has both baffled and amused Protestants at least since the First Vatican Council formally adopted the idea nearly 150 years ago (though the notion existed informally ...

Since the First Vatican Council of 1870, it has been a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church that the Pope, when he speaks ex cathedra on matters of faith or morals, is infallible. In the most ...

A good illustration of how papal infallibility actually works is in the comparatively recent definition of the assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There’s a scene in Brideshead Revisited in which ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Anthony Akinwale. Sir, David Gardner’s “Pope Francis is bringing glasnost to the Vatican” (Comment, ...