In 1870, the First Vatican Council defined the dogma of papal infallibility. In continuation on our series on the Papacy, Justin Hibbard explains what papal infallibility is and isn’t, why the Catholic Church decided to expand infallibility to the Pope, why Popes aren’t eager to use it, and what dogmas have been declared by the Pope through his charism of papal infallibility.

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SHOW NOTES:

* Article on the Filioque from New Advent

* Nicene Creed & Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed - Catholic Answers

* Canons of the Council of Ephesus (431)

* Canons of the Council of Chalcedon (451)

* Pope Francis’ Comments about the 2024 US Presidential Candidates

* Episode 110 - Papal Supremacy

* Episode 65 - From Doctrine to Dogma

* Vatican I - First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ (Pastor Aertenus)

* Episode 104 - The Nuclear Football

* Constitution Munificentissimus Deus (1950)

* Ubi Primum (1849)

* Ineffabilis Deus (1854)

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