Pope’s Foot-Wash a Final Straw for Traditionalist Catholics

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25. Okay, sit back and I will explain

Of course you made a comment about 'ex cathedra", you just do not know what it means. That is sad, and most people do not speak latin, but we know what ex-cathedra means.

Your assertion, while simple, was completely wrong. A Pope only claims "infallibility" when he speaks "ex-cathedra" which is latin for "from the chair". There are have TWO instances of a Pope speaking ex-cathedra in the 2000 year history of the Church, and both involved Catholic Dogma on the Blessed Virgin.

All the rest of the time, the Pope simply speaks as the leader of the Catholic Church, and as of Head of State of the country Vatican City (yes, Vatican City is a country not a city).

Secondly, your use of the word heretic, at least as it relates to Catholicism, is also completely wrong. While we are having a teaching moment, heresy in the modern Church (i.e. after the last inquisition) is limited to sects or groups. A disagreement is a disagreement, heresy is quite another thing, and you cannot really be throwing that term around lightly, because it is not.

If I am curt, it is because I am tired of people Catholic bashing who really have no idea what the hell they are talking about, and they are too intellectually lazy to go find out for themselves, but they spout gibberish like "Papal Infallibility" and like it is every time the Pope speaks. In other words, if you want to bash Catholics at least take half an hour to do some Wikipedia searches so you are at least a little bit informed. Please.