• dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Pretty sure the infallibility part is only when he speaks “ex cathedra” which is a pretty narrow and specific time, but I’m not a Catholic.

    A quick Google says the last time that was done was in 1950.

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      And that’s why francis had to clarify that he wasn’t speaking infallibly when he said he hoped hell was empty