You can disagree all you want, but both Vatican I & II claimed the Pope speaks infallibly on matters of faith and morality. Do a yahoo search on "Papal Infallibility" and you'll see.bbking said:Sorry to disagree with you - I think if you will check you will find that a Pope only speaks infallibly in matters of faith alone, with the last time it was done was by Pius IX, the father of the modern church when he brought forward the concept of the imaculate conception. While that concept was around for some time, it was heavily debated. Actually this is the only diffrence in matters of faith along with concept of the Pope"s authority between Catholics and Anglicans. In matters of faith the Anglican Church generally mirrored the Roman Church until Pius IX claim of infallibility.
Moral teachings are a guide to be followed nothing more. What I reject is the notion that to be a good Catholic, I have to be a mindless robot. Sorry faith doesn't work that way.
Of course, infallibility is not just limited to explicit statements from the Pope like the Immaculate Conception and Mary's Assumption. Councils enjoy infallibility, and the world body of bishops in union with the Pope enjoy it as well when they agree on an ordinary teaching.
I went to a Catholic college and graduate school and took the mandatory theology classes (and a few more just for fun). There's no way around the abortion issue in the Church. To be a Pro-Choice politician places one on very shaky grounds with the Catholic Church...