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Article: Canonizations and infallibility. (News in Brief).
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Recently the Catholic weekly out of London, England, The Tablet, carried correspondence in its letters column about the authority behind canonizations. A professor David Brading contended that a canonization should be regarded as an exercise of Papal Infallibility (after all, the Pope declares that person to be a saint and in heaven). In response, two letters in The Tablet of March 2 opposed this view. An Oxford professor, Sir Michael Dummett, argued that what can be infallibly defined as being of faith can only be something that has been divinely revealed. Canonization, he said, is in fact a liturgical authorization of the celebration of the feast of the new saint. Any ...
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