{"id":27144,"date":"2018-12-15T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?p=27144"},"modified":"2018-12-15T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T15:52:40","slug":"how-can-we-find-a-list-of-infallible-catholic-doctrines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2018\/12\/how-can-we-find-a-list-of-infallible-catholic-doctrines.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Can we Find a List of Infallible Catholic Doctrines?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27153\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/572\/2018\/12\/VaticanII6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"><\/p>\n<p>This question about which Catholic doctrines are infallible, was asked in another forum. Since I\u2019ve heard it asked many times, I thought it would be good to share my answer for public consumption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All this talk about the infallible doctrines of the RC got me to wondering: where can I find the book or books in which these doctrines are set forth? Is there some kind of list, like all the decisions of all the Councils plus all the Papal bulls, or something like that?<\/p>\n<p>Is there an official set of agreed-upon infallible doctrines somewhere, and maybe a supplementary list of probably-true-but-not-definitely-true doctrines?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best source I know (especially for laymen) is\u00a0<i>Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma<\/i>, by Ludwig Ott (4th edition published by TAN Books, Rockford, Illinois, 1974, and<a href=\"https:\/\/thavmapub.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/fundamentalsofcatholicdogma.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0available online<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>He starts out by explaining the various levels of dogmatic certainty. Many folks are unaware that the Catholic Church distinguishes between <em>various levels of infallibility<\/em> itself, with the famous\u00a0<i>ex cathedra<\/i>\u00a0being the very highest and the infallibility of the ordinary magisterium being an example of a lower-level infallibility. I deal with this issue at length in the following paper:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2018\/07\/infallibility-councils-and-levels-of-church-authority.html\" target=\"_blank\">Infallibility, Councils, and Levels of Church Authority: Explanation of the Subtleties of Church Teaching and Debate with Several Radical Catholic Reactionaries<\/a>\u00a0[7-30-99; terminology updated, and a few minor changes made on 7-31-18]<\/p>\n<p>Catholics are bound to accept dogmas under\u00a0<i>any<\/i>\u00a0of these categories of infallibility (a thing which has been cynically, ruthlessly or ignorantly exploited \u2014 I should say,\u00a0distorted\u00a0\u2014 by liberal or dissenting Catholics who wish to reject certain Catholic dogmas that they don\u2019t care for).<\/p>\n<p>After explaining the different levels of authority, Ott then presents a systematic theology of various doctrines, by giving simple one-line propositions or doctrines and then classifying them (<i>de fide<\/i>\u00a0dogma being the highest in the book). That allows one to see how authoritative or certain various Catholic doctrines are, according to the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma<\/em>\u00a0was revised by Dr. Ott himself in 1969, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fundamentals-Catholic-Dogma-Dr-Ludwig\/dp\/1905574657\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1544887875&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=fundamentals+of+catholic+dogma+ludwig+ott%2C+baronius\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">new English edition (2018)<\/a> is now available: supervised by my good friend, Dr. Robert Fastiggi. It runs about $60 on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is Joseph Denzinger\u2019s\u00a0<i>The Sources of Catholic Dogma<\/i>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DenzingerTheSourcesOfCatholicDogma\/page\/n3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">available online in its entirety: 1955 version<\/a>) but it doesn\u2019t make the helpful distinctions that Ott makes, and merely lists dogmatic documents. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Enchiridion-Symbolorum-Compendium-Definitions-Declarations\/dp\/0898707463\/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=0898707463&amp;pd_rd_r=79a1b1d0-007e-11e9-90c0-f9307a5a46b8&amp;pd_rd_w=2ptFs&amp;pd_rd_wg=8zHSm&amp;pf_rd_p=6725dbd6-9917-451d-beba-16af7874e407&amp;pf_rd_r=1S8WYE7Y7PXEV38SZJ2B&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=1S8WYE7Y7PXEV38SZJ2B\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2012 43rd edition<\/a> (again, translated and edited by Dr. Fastiggi), can be purchased for about $55.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scborromeo.org\/ccc.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/i><\/a>\u00a0[I\u2019ve linked to the online 2nd version] is also good to simply find out what Catholics believe and what they are bound to. But in answer to the specific question above, I don\u2019t know of any better source than Dr. Ott. He is very helpful.<\/p>\n<p>For excellent treatments of the fine-tuned distinctions of the Church, even within the category of \u201cinfallibility,\u201d see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/library\/scriptur\/4levels.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">\u201cFour Levels of the Church\u2019s Teaching\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(Fr. William G. Most)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/library\/SCRIPTUR\/HIERARCH.TXT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">\u201cThe Hierarchy of Truths and the Truth\u201d\u00a0<\/a>(Fr. William G. Most)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/library\/DOCTRINE\/TRIGINFL.HTM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">\u201cA Discussion of Infallibility\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(Fr. John Trigilio)<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>(originally 11-11-05; rev. 9-16-08, 12-15-18)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo credit:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Second Vatican Council at St. Peter\u2019s in Rome; photograph by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lothar_Wolleh\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lothar Wolleh<\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> (1930-1979)<\/span> [<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Second_Vatican_Council_by_Lothar_Wolleh_005.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \/\u00a0\u00a0<a class=\"extiw decorated-link\" title=\"w:en:Creative Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/en:Creative_Commons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported<\/a>\u00a0license]<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question about which Catholic doctrines are infallible, was asked in another forum. Since I\u2019ve heard it asked many times, I thought it would be good to share my answer for public consumption: All this talk about the infallible doctrines of the RC got me to wondering: where can I find the book or books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"featured_media":27153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[7269,1376,7263,6486,7260,6483,7266],"class_list":["post-27144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-ecclesiology","tag-catholic-catechism","tag-catholic-infallibility","tag-denzinger","tag-fundamentals-of-catholic-dogma","tag-infallible-doctrines","tag-ludwig-ott","tag-the-sources-of-catholic-dogma"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;How Can we Find a List of Infallible Catholic Doctrines?&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The best source of a list of infallible Catholic doctrines I know of is\u00a0&quot;Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma&quot; 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Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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