"We have to introduce―we are thinking about it―to the Catechism of the Catholic Church the sin against ecology, the 'ecological sin' against our common home, because a duty is at stake."
Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church that states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error "when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church."
The Question:
I know papal infallibility doesn't apply to everything the pope says or does. A statement has to meet certain criteria in order for this doctrine to apply. So when Pope Francis says something like 'oh european countries should take in more refugees', Catholics have told me this is not an infallible statement because it's not something held to be the faith or morals of the whole Church. After all, he's just a dude and that's his opinion, and God doesn't step in and make the Pope's words infallible unless he is defining church doctrine. Fair enough.
But at what point would a hairbrained, communist idea endorsed by a pope become 'church teachings' under the definition of papal infallibility, and therefore guaranteed to be true?
At some point -- for instance, if something like "ecological sin" becomes part of the catechism -- do you Catholics have to cuck and say 'this must be right or God wouldn't have allowed it to happen'? or as an alternative admit the doctrine of papal infallibity must have been faulty in the first place?
What is that point? What stage of endorsement would an idea like "ecological sin" or 'refugees welcome' become basically 100% true according to the doctrine of papal infallibility?
>"We have to introduce―we are thinking about it―**to the Catechism of the Catholic Church** the sin against ecology, the 'ecological sin' against our common home, because a duty is at stake."
- Pope Francis
>Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church that states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error **"when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church."**
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility)
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###The Question:
I know papal infallibility doesn't apply to everything the pope says or does. A statement has to meet certain criteria in order for this doctrine to apply. So when Pope Francis says something like 'oh european countries should take in more refugees', Catholics have told me this is not an infallible statement because it's not something held to be the faith or morals of the whole Church. After all, he's just a dude and that's his opinion, and God doesn't step in and make the Pope's words infallible unless he is defining church doctrine. Fair enough.
But at what point would a hairbrained, communist idea endorsed by a pope become 'church teachings' under the definition of papal infallibility, and therefore guaranteed to be true?
At some point -- for instance, if something like "ecological sin" becomes part of the catechism -- do you Catholics have to cuck and say 'this must be right or God wouldn't have allowed it to happen'? [or as an alternative admit the doctrine of papal infallibity must have been faulty in the first place?](#spoiler)
What is that point? What stage of endorsement would an idea like "ecological sin" or 'refugees welcome' become basically 100% true according to the doctrine of papal infallibility?
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