Roman Catholic Doctrinal evolution: Doctrinal flip flops
No Pope was considered infallible until 1870 AD

1. Pope Adrian VI - It is certain that the Pontiff ... may err in those things which pertain to faith.
2. Pope Paul IV - I do not doubt that I and my predecessors may sometimes have erred.
3. Archbishop Purcell said in his debate with Alexander Campbell in Cincinnati on 1-13-1837: "the bishop of Rome, though he was not believed to be infallible. Neither is he now. No enlightened Catholic holds the pope's infallibility of be an article of faith. I do not; and none of my brethren, that I know of, do. The Catholic believes the pope ... to be as liable to error, as almost any other man in the universe. Man is man, and no man is infallible, either in doctrine or morals."

"A Doctrinal Catechism," by Keenan, bearing the Imprimatur (official sanction) of Scotch Roman Catholic bishops, pre 1870: Must not Catholics believe the pope himself to be infallible? This is a Protestant invention; it is no article of the Catholic faith; no decision of his can oblige, under pain of heresy, unless it is received and enforced by the teaching body, that is, the bishops of the church. After 1870, this Q&A was dropped from Keenan's catechism.

By Pat Donahue

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