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Catholic AnswerPapal infallibility exists because of God's great love for us. Every human being, saving only Our Blessed Lord and His mother are sinners. Sin exists because God, in His great love for us gave us free will so that we could freely love Him. Whenever we choose something other than Him, we sin. Papal infallibility is very limited, it only applies to "the Roman Pontiff when he speaks ex cathedra--that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and teacher of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in Blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be endowed in defining doctrine regarding faith or morals,; and therefore such definitions are irreformable of themselves and not in virtue of consent of the Church." (Denzinger 3074)
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