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Noun: papal infallibility
  1. Belief of the Roman Catholic Church that God protects the pope from error when the pope speaks about faith or morality
    "The doctrine of papal infallibility was defined at the First Vatican Council in 1870"

Derived forms: papal infallibilities

Type of: infallibility

Encyclopedia: Papal infallibility