Conciliar Distortions of Papal Infallibility Revealed
Catholic News Agency portal (December 8, 2025) attempts to explain papal infallibility through modernist lenses, framing it as a rarely exercised power while citing post-conciliar theologians like Fr. Patrick Flanagan and John P. Joy. The article references Pius IX’s 1854 definition of the Immaculate Conception and Pius XII’s 1950 Munificentissimus Deus on the Assumption as examples of infallible pronouncements, claiming these demonstrate continuity with Matthew 16:19. It misleadingly suggests that infallibility operates within a hermeneutic of continuity with conciliar ecclesiology, ignoring the rupture caused by Vatican II’s collegiality heresy.









