PAPAL INFALLIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does papal infallibility mean? 

• PAPAL INFALLIBILITY (noun)
  The noun PAPAL INFALLIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. belief of the Roman Catholic Church that God protects the pope from error when he speaks about faith or morality

  Familiarity information: PAPAL INFALLIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPAL INFALLIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belief of the Roman Catholic Church that God protects the pope from error when he speaks about faith or morality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("papal infallibility" is a kind of...):

infallibility (the quality of never making an error)