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From: gt7122b@prism.gatech.edu (Randal Lee Nicholas Mandock)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Question about Virgin Mary
Message-ID: <May.10.05.08.40.1993.3717@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 10 May 93 09:08:40 GMT
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In article <May.6.00.34.46.1993.15415@geneva.rutgers.edu>
 news@cbnewsk.att.com writes:
>Basically the teaching on infallibility
>holds that the pope is infallible in matters of faith and doctrine, the
>college of bishops is likewise infallible, and the laity is as well.

Not exactly correct, but nice try.  The Catholic doctrine of infallibility
refers to freedom from error in teaching of the universal Church in 
matters of faith or MORALS.  It is this teaching which is taken as 
doctrine. 


-- 
Randal Lee Nicholas Mandock 
Catechist
gt7122b@prism.gatech.edu 
