The man charges with defending papal infallibility at Vatican I says otherwise.
sigh ...
The infallibility of the Roman Pontiff is obtained, not by way of revelation, nor by way of inspiration, but by way of divine assistance. That is why the pope, in virtue of his function, is bound to employ the means required in order to elucidate the truth sufficiently and to expound it correctly; and these means are the following: meetings with bishops, cardinals, and theologians, and having recourse to their counsels. The means will vary according to the matters treated; and we must believe that when Christ promised divine assistance to St. Peter and to his successors, this promise also included the requisite and necessary means so that the Pontiff could state his judgment infallibly.
You have absolutely no idea what this quote actually means and just twist whatever you can to back your non-Catholic position.
This means that the Holy Spirit does not infuse doctrine into the pope's mind directly (as by way or revelation or inspiration). It doesn't work like that. Instead the Holy Spirit assists the natural process by which a Pope reasons and thinks through the matter to be defined. That's all it's saying.
This does NOT mean that if a Pope did not investigate a matter with the degree of thoroughness that would satisfy armchair theologians like SeanJohnson, the truth of any given definition remains in doubt.
We've demonstrated how your position turns infallibility into a meaningless tautology and makes infallibility something accidental to a proposition that just so happens to be true.
If I were elected Pope tomorrow and decided that I would solemnly proclaim the Assumption of St. Joseph, God would intervene to the point of striking me dead minutes before I could make the pronouncement if this were false doctrine. Infallibility is given to protect the Church from false doctrine.
I can see your stupidity (and the stupidity of LOTI) are becomming occassions of sin to me.
You have not only demonstrated the inability to understand what you read, but even the inability to follow a thread.
I can see more serious discussion will have to be conducted offline.
Pity.