Mike Painter wrote:
duke wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:59:19 GMT, "Mike Painter"

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The last time they changed the rules, when they made the Pope rather
than a group infallible there was a schism.

The rules have never changed. When was the last schism?

This has been pointed ou to you any number of times. The last major one was
in 1871 when the pope declared that he was infalliable instead of the
magisterium.

The infallibility dogma was promulgated on 18 July 1870, and it led to
the schism of the Old Catholics. For a detailed analysis of the
shameless manner in which Vatican I was conducted, and of how the
passage of the infallibility dogma was orchestrated, I would recommend
the book by the Catholic priest August Bernhard Hasler: "HOW THE POPE
BECAME INFALLIBLE: Pius IX and the Politics of Persuation," Doubleday
(1981) [translation of "WIE DER PAPST UNFEHLBAR WURDE: Macht und
Ohnmacht eines Dogmas," R. Piper & Co. Verlag (1979)].

Domenico Rosa