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I heard there was a pope in the thirteenth century who resigned. Is this true?
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How can the popes be infallible if they can contradict each other?
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Did Cardinal Newman initially reject the doctrine of papal infallibility?
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What is the origin of the statement "Rome has spoken, the matter is finished"?
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Why does the pope kiss the ground after he disembarks from an airplane?
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Does "the black pope" wield the true power in the Vatican?
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How can you say one of the marks of the Church is unity when, at one time in the 14th century, there were three popes?
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Is the pope addressed as "Vicar of the Son of God" in the Donation of Constantine?
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What does the term ex cathedra mean, and where did the Catholic Church come up with it?
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Did Pope Gregory the Great say that anyone who claimed the title "universal bishop" was the Antichrist?
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~ Anglo-Saxon "Ecclesiastical Institutes" translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000; explaining the English term "shrovetide" (from "to shrive", or hear confessions) wherein the religious idea is uppermost; but before long, human nature allowed itself some exceptional licence.