From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 01:45:15 MDT
Charlie Stross wrote:
>
> Used to be Catholic doctrine that the holy spirit breathed the soul into
> a foetus at 12 weeks, but the Pope changed his mind around 1850. This,
> incidentally, was the extremely conservative Pope who reasserted the
> doctrine of papal infallability and used his position to whack on the evil
> liberals who tried to hold democratic revolutions all over Europe in 1848.
That was not a reassertion of papal infallibility, it was made
up out of whole cloth! That doctrine did not exist as an
article of faith in the Catholic Church before this time. It is
a very recent (not much over a centry) innovation.
- samantha
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