Killing Time with Good Pope Francis

Over at the Heidelblog, Sean Moore, a Reformed believer who had once studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood, commented: The roman curia got some concession, [given that the new pope’s] father was an Italian immigrant to Argentina. There was no way the curia was gonna get their guy with Ratzinger still in the city and …

‘Papal Infallibility’ is a cause for confusion

“Papal Infallibility” is not a point of unity even among conservative Roman Catholics. Michael Liccione said: What is at issue is whether any church is ever divinely protected from doctrinal error, not moral error, under certain conditions. Elsewhere he described one component of this: “In Catholic theology, it is not even a matter of dispute …