A long-simmering tension over ‘creeping infallibility’
By Philippine Catholic News on May 14, 2011 in: sack, tension, teachings, women priest, Benedict XVI, infallibility, Vatican, ban, Catholicism, church, debate, infallible, Australian, bishop, priests, ordination, Pope

WHEN Pope Benedict XVI used the word “infallible” in reference to the ban on women’s ordination in a recent letter informing an Australian bishop he’d been sacked, it marked the latest chapter of a long-simmering debate in Cath...