Tag: Papal Infallibility

In his time St John Henry Newman was held in the deepest suspicion by 19th-century ultramontanists, whose absurdly expansive view of papal infallibility tended to turn the pope into an oracle who spoke divinely warranted truth on virtually any subject, writes George Weigel.

I know that the church defined the infallibility of the pope in the First Vatican Council, but I would like to ask whether there is any evidence before that the church and the pope believed they were infallible.