• Nougat@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    The Catholic Church is founded on the idea that the Pope is the mouthpiece of god.

    Who decides who the “right” Pope is? You must certainly know that issues of succession (oh so topically) are often contested, and the Catholic Church is not immune to that.

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      11 months ago

      God does. That’s the point. The Catholic belief, which is written into the very doctrine and dogma of the religion, is that God is guiding the process and that God chooses the Pope. The whole religion is based on the idea that Jesus took the wheel and handed it to Peter afterwards who then handed it to the next person. Papal infallibility, as a concept, is the promise that the leadership of the Catholic Church is free from human error so, yes, according to their own beliefs, they are explicitly immune from that.

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        11 months ago

        God does.

        And that’s why this is entirely a circular and nonsensical thing.