After my reception into the Church [a Catholic priest who had discouraged Benson's conversion] wrote to me again, asking how I had surmounted the difficulty [about papal infallibility] which he had indicated. I answered by saying that I could not be deterred by such elaborate distinctions from uniting myself to what I was convinced was the divinely appointed centre of Unity and that I had simply accepted the Decree [of the First Vatican Council] in the same sense in which the Church herself had uttered and accepted it. (pg. 87)
Sunday, November 03, 2013
From Robert Hugh Benson
Discussion of papal primacy and particularly infallibility from Robert Hugh Benson's memoir of his conversion, Confessions of a Convert:
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