^ I don't expect you to accept it, but at least you understand it. For a little perspective, there have been only three infallible statements in the last 200 years. It's very rare.
I don't think he'll read any pamphlets though.
If you're interested:
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/papal-infallibility
Boy, I didn't know that! That's good to hear. Wouldn't it also be great if we could say there have only been three train wrecks, the past couple hundred years?
You seem capable of addressing more than Torquemada's talking points. (I'm probably not the only one just bored of the Dark Ages version of a Chatty Cathy doll somebody keeps pulling the string on that proclaims, "Heretics!" "Because we say so!") Do you know how they explain reversing previously infallible stuff? I take it things that make the Catechism are infallible, as I've never heard a Roman Catholic admit parts of the Catechism are a crock everybody knows, even most Catholics, are a crock, and new religion you whip-up and insert in your book must be infallible, is that so? (By the way, besides the forever vacuous, "Because Rome says so!", testifying of yourselves, why not the Book of Mormon, too? They added to the word of God and also testisfy their additions are inspired.)
I know, at one time, non-Catholics just went to hell, pure and simple, and that you just liked to torture and burn us alive, as well as any and all scripture in sight, doing this in service of the merciful and loving Lord Jesus, the Prince of Peace, of course. Or maybe Mary ordered the genocide, I don't know. Anyway, we're going to hell, after being tortured and burned alive by you guys, then, at some point, you guys decided we're just broken or handicapped Christians, but that it's perhaps possible believing the gospel Jesus Christ and the apostles taught could result in a few of us limping into some Roman heaven. As I recall, this didn't have anything to do with repentance of greivous sin, infallible crimes against humanity, that it was about the time Protestant monarchs began to appear, and, also, however misguided, demonstrated they also knew how to use matches, on a much smaller scale, though. Whatever, how your infallibility goes from anathema to, "Oh, alright," seems to have most to do with not finding your own medicine palatable, as opposed to this morphing of infallibility being a theological conclusion scripture supports, to whit, torture murder is infallibly evil. In Catholic history, how do you explain being of infallibility and these major, bloody, criminal breaches of basic moral laws of scripture and Godly love, which are, at best, bestial? Come on, Christian serial killers, serial torture murderers? Can't you guys see the no-brainer aspect of this being the work, the fruits, of Satan? Isn't it also true there's no such thing as infallible psychos?
I must admit I find it all confusing, mostly reconciling things. For example, you have the lies. I mean, come on, let's get real: indulgences, purgatory, statues of Mary with bleeding eyeballs, enough apostle and saint bones scattered around Europe to build a T. Rex, scapular mojo, perpetual virginity, cannabalism, praying to a host of dead people? As to the latter, do you really believe dead people are omnipresent, are hearing prayers? Based upon what doctrine of God do a host of Catholics go to heaven and become intercessors? And do they censor Protestant prayers, before they can reach the Lord? Suppose a Protestant prays somebody doesn't get sucked into Catholicism? Do you guys divert those prayers in heaven? After all, you can't burn our prayers. Speaking of which, again, seems so inescapable, that nobody can be of the Spirit and John 8:44. But I digress, and know you guys find scripture annoying and inconvenient. Sorry. But I would be curious the three things Popes got right the past 200 years, can only hope he reversed some more of the previously infallible stuff. Or are they just statements like, say post-Pasteur, "There are slobber germs all over my ring," or, "We sure look silly in these outfits," things of some obvious metaphysical certitude?
Anyway, three things in 200 years? You guys are on a roll! It must be a hectic schedule. With Francis, you probably won't have to worry about a fourth infallible utterance anytime soon, at least if the statement must actually relate to Christianity, though Roman Catholicism does have a history of not having to be even tangential to any doctrine in scripture, but at least some infallible utterance should have some Christian credulity, right? Yes? No? Do you know where there's a list of infallible stuff? I've got popcorn, if you've got a link.
Collossians 2
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Revelation 22
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Matthew 15
1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
2 Timothy 4
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
