And I may say many people are using this argument, of course,
and many times we hear this kind of argument
taking either conclusion, either on one side or the other.
That's what is really funny, not so funny, tragic,
but very interesting.
You have the same premise and radical different conclusions.
The premise is...
The pope is infallible.
The second premise, for some is, the Pope said that, conclusion will be, that is infallible.
The Pope is infallible, the Pope has said that, so that is infallible.
And I may say that's the Ecclesia D solution.
The other way to get to that problem is to say the Pope is infallible.
But obviously what is said there is wrong.
Conclusion, it's not the Pope who said it.
So if this person in Rome said it which is in white, he cannot be the Pope.
They both start with the same, start, the pope is infallible.
So where is the problem?
That starting with the same phrase, you come to solve radical solutions.
Obviously, the problem comes from a distinction which is not made.
They made it too simple with this phrase, the Pope is infallible.
You need just there to introduce a distinction and then everything comes back to order.
And then you have the solution to these two errors.
The Pope is not always infallible.
Well, because the Pope is not a machine gun.
That was an argument I was facing once.
Someone said, well, the infaribity is like a machine gun.
You pull the trigger and the bullet goes.
This argument said, even if you say, I don't want to pull the trigger, by the time you
pull the trigger, the bullet goes.
My answer is no, no, no, it doesn't work like that.
The Pope is not a machine gun.
He's not a revolver.
The infanimity is not like pulling the trigger.
The Pope is a human being.
Which means that he has a freedom and almighty God wants all the human beings to act.
Not using their reason, their will and their freedom.
Even when he promised them the highest gifts, like this gift of infallibility,
he will request a free act on the side of the Pope.
In such a way that if the Pope really does not want to make use of it, he will not.
The priest has all the might, the tremendous might, to make God descend on the altar.
to make out of a piece of bread the most precious body of Christ.
He has this might.
But if he does not want to go by the book, if you want to say, okay, I'm going to say a mass,
but this time, instead of saying, this is my body, I would say, this is my head.
Well, nothing will happen. Nothing will happen.
or if it says off or wine. I prefer coke.
or a piece of bread, let's have cakes, some cookies.
They do so, they break the thing, there will be no mass.
Or even this time, he says the word, he uses the matter, but he says,
no, I'm not going to make it. No, no, no. Think about that.
If he does not bring here the right intention to do what the church does
Nothing will happen because he is free.
He is a free being and God wants these free beings to make use of their freedom.
We are not machines.
Even there, the highest when it goes about being infallible.
It's a wrong understanding to think that the Pope would be infallible in everything.
No, he has all the might to become and to be infallible, but he must make the right
use of the right means.
It's as simple as that.