Caminus said:In the practical, concrete, everyday life of the Church, the Pope is FALLIBLE for the majority, if not the entirety of his pontificate, unless he chooses to engage the plenitude of his authority.
I read the Vatican Council One and it said that the Pope was only infallible when speaking ex cathedra. Yet I've heard the same Council quoted saying that whenever the Pope speaks on faith and morals he is also infallible.
What you're saying is that it is only dogma that the Pope is infallible when speaking ex cathedra, right? But it is theologically certain and therefore at least a dogma of the Ordinary and Universal Magisterium that his infallibility extends far beyond that, as it would have to -- how can you call the Pope the Divine Teaching Authority of the Church if he only teaches twice in two centuries? That is absurd.
Caminus, do you know of any other fifty year period of the Church where heresies and errors verily cascade forth from its encyclicals, or from an official Council convened by the Popes and bishops? Can you find even one single encyclical prior to Pius X that savors of error at all? The most I've ever been able to find are some maddeningly ambiguous statements from Innocent XI ( who studied with Jesuits ), but this is not even remotely like the ambiguity of Vatican II, nor does he ever step into blatant heresy and/or error.