Why does the American Catholic Church, U.S. deny the infallibility of the Pope?
Papal infallibility was not part of the Sacred Apostolic Tradition of the One Undivided Church. The concept of the infallibility of the Pope grew from the power gained in the early Roman Church, and from a series of documents that were later proven as forgeries by the Eastern Church and today are accepted as false by virtually all authorities, including Roman Catholic scholars. The Roman Catholic Church was not called Roman Catholic until the early nineteenth century, and the name was coined for them by the British. Before that, they were the Western Catholic as opposed to the Eastern Catholic (Orthodox Church). Few people realize that the Roman Catholic Churchs doctrine of papal infallibility was defined only very recently at Vatican Council I in 1870, and that many Bishops avoided a vote by leaving the Council early. Many of those Bishops bolted from Roman Catholicism to form the Old Catholic Church with headquarters in Utrecht, Holland. The Roman Catholic pontiffs have only used thi
