INFALLIBILITY?

Definition

we teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed that the roman pontiff, when he speaks ex-cathedra, that is, in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians ... he defines a doctrine regarding faith and morals to be held by the universal church ... is possessed of that infallibility which the Divine Redeemer willed that His church should be endowed for defining doctrines regarding faith and morals ... and that such definitions of themselves, and not by virtue of the consent of the church, are irreformable

Clarifications

--- papal, not council or magisterium

--- faith and morals

--- universal church

Infallibility clearly claimed for only three doctrines

--- by Pope Pius IX in affirming the doctrine of Papal Infallibility

--- by Pope Pius IX when he proclaimed the doctrine of Immaculate Conception

--- by Pope Pius XII when he proclaimed the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary

If the pope really does have this power, why doesn't he use it?

If he does use it, why does he keep people guessing as to whether or not he speaks authoritatively?

--- why is there no " infallible " commentary on the bible? ...

why not an " infallible " exposition of even one chapter?

--- doesn't this carry the effect of shutting off the understanding of the bible from people? ... precisely what Jesus condemned the pharisees for?

( see: matt 23:13 ... matt 15:7-9)

WHICH OF CONTRADICTING PRONOUNCEMENTS ARE INFALLIBLE?

--- Pope Honorius (625-638) officially taught that Christ had only one will, that he was either God or man, not both at any one time ... this was condemned by the sixth council (680), which also condemned and excommunicated Pope Honorius ... since then, the " hypostatic " nature of Christ has been accepted as official roman doctrine

--- Pope Paul V (1605-1621) and Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) condemned Galileo, officially denouncing his teaching regarding mobility of the earth and the immobility of the sun as " utterly contrary to the Holy Scriptures "

--- Pope Pius IX (Syllabus of Errors, 1864) declared the doctrine of separation of church and state one of the principal errors of our age ... K of C in US tried to redefine this as applicable only to the US ... but is it?

--- Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590, Editorial Bull, Latin Vulgate Volume 1) excommunicated anyone who in republishing it should make any alterations on the text ... but the work contained so many errors it had to be recalled and another " infallible " Pope published another version, altered in many particulars

--- Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590) exhorted reading of the Bible ... Pope Pius VII (1800-1823) and others after him condemned it

--- Pope Eugene IV (1431-1447) condemned Joan of Arc to be burned alive as a witch ... Pope Benedict XV in 1919 declared her to be a saint