Priests, deacons, and religious can never exercise the Magisterium, neither infallibly, nor non-infallibly. Only a person validly ordained to the Episcopal degree can possibly exercise the Magisterium.
Sullivan refers here to the fact that I took issue 13 with his claim that canon 749.3 (No doctrine is to be understood to be infallibly defined unless this fact is clearly established as such) which is applicable to defined dogmas should also be applied to undefined dogmas and definitive teachings of ...
The last words that Mr. Richard Henry Lee said to me, when we parted, were, "we shall infallibly carry all our points. You will be completely relieved; all the offensive acts will be repealed; the army and fleet will be recalled, and Britain will give up her foolish project."
They hold that there are indeed doctrinal problems with Vatican II; but, according to them, this is no problem for Paul VI because he did not infallibly promulgate any of the Vatican II heresies.
An individual Bishop, other than the Pope, cannot teach infallibly by his sole authority, but the Bishops "nevertheless proclaim Christ's doctrine infallibly whenever, even though dispersed through the world, but still maintaining the bond of communion among themselves and with the Successor of Peter ...
It would hardly seem reasonable to argue that since the former consensus had fulfilled the conditions required for the infallible exercise of ordinary universal magisterium, the subsequent lack of consensus could nullify the claim that the doctrine had already been infallibly taught. 4 There is another ...
1 Two Kinds of A Priori Infallibility On rationalist infallibilism, a wide range of both (i) analytic and (ii) synthetic a priori propositions can be infallibly justified (or absolutely warranted), i.e., justified to a degree that entails their truth and precludes their falsity.
After all, the argument has the same form as this clearly invalid argument: I know infallibly that I am Bloggs; I do not know infallibly that I am the son of John and Mary; hence the son of John and Mary is not the same thing as Bloggs.
For example, you read your cite of the WCF as claiming that only individuals can infallibly interpret Scripture, a position rejected by the Westminster divines and the Reformers.
To this end, we believe that no individual, whether cleric or lay person, has the right to alter the substance of the gospel message or moral truths which have been inerrantly and infallibly held by the Catholic Church since Her founding.