Infallible fashion
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Besides being Europe’s only absolute monarch, the highest authority of the Catholic Church, and the head of state of the smallest country in the world, the Pope is one of few human beings who can claim to be officially infallible. It must be pretty great. In truth, it’s a sort of Catch-22 because the dogma of papal infallibility was decreed by the Catholic Church, which the Pope obviously leads, but anyway: the Pope is preserved from even the possibility of error. Therefore, he must be the best dressed man in the entire planet. He can’t make mistakes!
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April 5th, 2009 at 03:11
I believe the Pope’s infallibility is limited to matters of Catholic Church doctrine not to anything more than that. Just putting it out there since that was not made clear to me in Catholic school. And since I’m not Catholic, I don’t even have to believe that!
April 5th, 2009 at 12:19
It’s easy… just follow what hundreds of popes before had been sporting… do you ever see them in any other outfits?
April 5th, 2009 at 13:50
I dont mean to be persnickety but I thought the Sovereign Military Order of Malta is the smallest country in the world. It’s just a building in Rome, but they have their own flag, issue passports, and have their own national anthem. And they are represented in the UN, observer ek-ek nga lang.