COMMENTARY: As the Catholic Church marks the 150th anniversary of Pastor Aeternus, it is an occasion for us to be grateful for the gift of the teaching authority of the Church, especially that of the ...

Most of our problems today boil down to one root cause. Far too many people consider themselves, their ideas, their beliefs, their faith to be the one and only Truth. This fundamentalist way of ...

The idea of papal infallibility has both baffled and amused Protestants at least since the First Vatican Council formally adopted the idea nearly 150 years ago (though the notion existed informally ...

Can there be infallibility in political and social discourse or in matters relating to social or political organisation? That various political ideas and systems have evolved is proof that none has ...

There is no greater scandal among moderns than the Catholic Church's claim to infallibility. And who can blame them? For as this century drags to a close, it does look as though only a cretin could ...

Infallibility and heresy Not since certain American Protestants were publicly anti-Catholic, as older readers may remember them having been, have we read as many headlines with words like ...

It started as a conversation, turned into a debate and somehow became a debate to decide which one of you is absolutely right about everything and which one of you is a fool, discredited on every ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Anthony Akinwale. Sir, David Gardner’s “Pope Francis is bringing glasnost to the Vatican” (Comment, ...