Is the office of the Papacy an abomination?

[J. J.]

I think the claim regarding to the Heliocentric solar system is a good illustration the Archbishop's (from my mouth to God's ear) point.

The Pope never claimed that he was "infallibly" proclaiming that the Sun went around the earth.  Though that was the Church's teaching, the Church never said, "We proclaim this because we are infallible."  The action was reversed, finally, under the papacy of John Paul II.

Up to John Paul I, however, supposedly all popes from the 7th Century did take an oath not to undo anything their predecessors had done as part of coronation ceremony. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Papal_Oath

John Paul I declined and not "crowned," and either was John Paul II or H. H. Benedict XVI.

[J. J.]

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Yes, but the Church as an institutional structure held that view, not the Church as the Body of Christ if you will.  As you said, the Church never claimed its teachings on astronomy were infallible.

I think that this was the key difference.  Many regulations and teachings have changed over time and I believe infallibility has been formally invoked only once or twice.

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My point is that the oath is not administered any more.

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But heavy, except for the papier-mâché one.