Is papal infallibility Biblical?
” Answer: The Roman Catholic Church teaches that the Pope is infallible when he speaks from his position of authority on a particular issue or doctrine (speaking ex cathedra). Many misunderstand papal infallibility as indicating that everything the Pope says is infallible. This is not what the Roman Catholic Church means by papal infallibility. According to the Roman Catholic Church, this infallibility of the Pope, only when speaking ex cathedra, is part of the Roman Catholic Churchs Magisterium, or the Teaching authority of the Church which God gave to the mother Church to guide her infallibly. This Teaching authority of the Church is made up of the Popes infallible teaching ability, the infallible teaching ability of church councils assembled under the authority of the Pope, and the ordinary Magisterium of the bishops. This ordinary Magisterium involves, among other things, bishops in various places beginning to teach the same particular doctrine (for instance the teaching that Mary
