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Are Catholics bound in conscience to accept all papal teachings, or just infallible teachings?

April 26, 2017bound Catholics conscience infallible papal teachings

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Are Catholics bound in conscience to accept all papal teachings, or just infallible teachings?

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Clearly Catholics have a duty to obey all Church teachings. However, there are varying degrees of obligation according to the different degree of authority that is attached to the teaching, and to how it is presented. You will find these distinctions in any standard textbook of dogmatic theology.