Scott Eric Alt is a Catholic convert and blogger. He has an M.A. in English literature (1998) from Southern Illinois University, and in a past life taught introductory college composition and literature. In 2011, after many years of Protestant church-hopping, he was received into the Catholic Church. He is a Third Degree Knight of Columbus and Benedictine oblate of St. Meinrad Archabbey. He currently lives near Cincinnati, Ohio, and blogs mainly about apologetics here.
This post begins a series addressing arguments against papal infallibility. The first of them is fairly easy to refute, but it is worth mentioning because of how common it is. The argument goes like this: “The pope is a sinner, like everyone else, and so therefore can hardly claim to be infallible.” Now, you will …
The Worst Arguments Against Papal Infallibility – Part 1 Read More »
A commonplace argument among Catholic apologists, whenever the topic of sola scriptura arises, is that without an authority external to the Bible, one can not know which books belong in the Bible in the first place. No Protestant would argue that the table of contents is infallible, and yet somehow one must know that Galatians …
In conversations with Protestants, the topic of sola scriptura will almost always come up. According to those who are persuaded by this idea, the Bible—sixty-six, not seventy-three, books—is the sole infallible rule of faith and practice for the Church. Whatever is not specifically in the Bible, or may be logically inferred from it, is not binding …
3 Verses That Fail to Prove Sola Scriptura, and Never Will Read More »
In my years of engaging apologetics topics with Protestants, and even sometimes fellow Catholics, I have found that the Church teaching on infallibility is one of the most difficult for people to grasp. It is more often necessary to explain what infallibility does not mean than what it does, and so root out the errors …