St Andrews Missal or the 1962?

I recently asked a friend to help me get the missal for the Tridentine mass. Basically there are 3 versions:
1. 1945 St. Andrews
2. 1962 Baronius Press
3. 1962 Angelus Press

He asked me which I would prefer asked that I google the differences, so far this review has helped me make my decision - I've decided to get the St. Andrews. Hope it helps you decide if you're looking for an answer too:

High quality leather binding, but format could be improved, June 8, 2008
 

By 

Davide Bianchini "Rising Suns" (Connecticut, USA) 

This review is from: 1962 Roman Missal - Black Leather (English and Latin Edition) (Bonded Leather)

I own three missals; 1945 St. Andrews, 1962 Baronius Press, and 1962 Angelus Press. What is desirable about the B.P. Missal is its soft genuine-leather cover, gold trim, and cream-colored pages. However, I would suggest that the B.P.'s "weakness" is the format, especially when compared to the beautiful 1945 St. Andrews missal. For example, the St. Andrews has both the Latin and English on the same page, organized into two columns, with rubrics in red. The B.P. however, has [for the mass] English on one page and Latin on the opposite page, with the rubrics repeated on both pages (also in red).

It's text font and spacing also seems to be cluttered, compared to the Angelus and SA. In addition, the LATIN text [for the propers and other prayers] in the B.P. Missal is reduced in size to ~1/2 the size as the English font. This de-emphasization appears to be a common trend among newer missals; post 1950's (note the 1945 St. Andrew gives equal spacing to both).

A third minor complaint; the print in the B.P. is somewhat difficult to read (for example, there is no clear differentiation between headings, canon, and rubrics like there is in the Angelus Press and St. Andrews). In this regard, the Angelus Press and St. Andrews missal are aesthetically "neater" than the B.P. (although there is significantly more "dead space" in the Angelus Press Missal).

There is also less information on each page. In the B.P., the text for the mass consumes about 71 pages, whereas in the S.A. is about half that; at 34 pages! (When I attend mass with the B.P. missal or Angelus Press missal, I find I am constantly turning pages to keep up). One last point, is the commentary in the S.A. missal is quite exceptional; it reads like a an old seminary textbook and contains traditional line art, with explanatory diagrams.

The fallback to the St. Andrews 1945 is that it has been republished in hard-cover (not leather), with white pages and red trim (the Angelus Press has a imitation-leather cover, with gold trim, and cream pages). Perhaps the format of the S.A. 1945 together with the quality of Baronius Press leather-bound publishing would make for an execptional missal.

***NOTE: IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A NEWER EDITION OF THE SA, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT NEWER EDITIONS (AFTER 1945) HAVE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE FORMAT, SUCH AS THE DE-EMPHASIS OF LATIN TEXT AS MENTIONED ABOVE, AND THE REMOVAL OF LINE-ART****

Pope: Moses mediated for Israel as Christ mediated for mankind

A child reacts after being kissed by Pope Benedict XVI as he leaves his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 1. (CNS/Paul Haring)

By Sarah Delaney
Catholic News Service
June 1, 2011

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Moses was willing to sacrifice himself to God for the sins of the people of Israel, just as Jesus Christ later sacrificed himself for the sins of humanity, Pope Benedict XVI said.

In his weekly audience June 1 in St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict said that the intercession of Moses, in which he asked God's forgiveness on behalf of others, invites Christians to recognize their sins and be saved through God's mercy.

The explanation about the role of Moses was the latest in a series of papal audience talks emphasizing the importance of prayer and its transformative power.

Pope Benedict recounted the story from the Book of Exodus when Moses, who had been fasting for 40 days to prepare for receiving the Ten Commandments, is told by an angry God that in his absence the people of Israel have made a golden calf to worship.

The pope said this is because the people, after having been led out of Egypt by Moses, are not able to understand the mystery of an invisible God and therefore produce "a comprehensible god, which corresponds to their ideas and their projects."

God is ready to destroy them for praying to a false god, but Moses, in prayer, begs him to forgive them and "show himself stronger than sin and death," the pope said. In reality, the pope said, God gave Moses the chance to intercede, "thus revealing that God's desire is always salvation."

In asking for forgiveness, the pope said, Moses does not make excuses, but admits wrong and appeals to the mercy of God "who offers the sinner the possibility to return to him."

At the end of the audience, Pope Benedict gave a special greeting to pilgrims from Croatia, where he was to visit June 4-5. He asked Croatian Catholics to pray for the success of his trip there, which will focus on the theme of Christian families.

Bishop: Catholics should kneel, receive communion on tongue

By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
 
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The reverence and awe of Catholics who truly believe they are receiving Jesus in the Eucharist should lead them to kneel and receive Communion on their tongues, said a bishop writing in the Vatican newspaper.

"If some nonbeliever arrived and observed such an act of adoration perhaps he, too, would 'fall down and worship God, declaring, God is really in your midst,'" wrote Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Karaganda , Kazakhstan , quoting from the First Letter to the Corinthians.

In a Jan. 8 article labeled a "historical-liturgical note," Bishop Schneider reviewed the writings of early church theologians about eucharistic reception and said the practice of laypeople receiving Communion on the tongue was the predominant custom by the sixth century.

The article in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, appeared under the headline, "Like a nursing child in the arms of the one who nourishes him."

Bishop Schneider said that just as a baby opens his mouth to receive nourishment from his mother, so should Catholics open their mouths to receive nourishment from Jesus.

"Christ truly nourishes us with his body and blood in holy Communion and, in the patristic era, it was compared to maternal breastfeeding," he said.

"The awareness of the greatness of the eucharistic mystery is demonstrated in a special way by the manner in which the body of the Lord is distributed and received," the bishop wrote.

In addition to demonstrating true adoration by kneeling, he said, receiving Communion on the tongue also avoids concerns about people receiving the body of Christ with dirty hands or of losing particles of the Eucharist, concerns that make sense if people truly believe in the sacrament.

"Wouldn't it correspond better to the deepest reality and truth about the consecrated bread if even today the faithful would kneel on the ground to receive it, opening their mouths like the prophet receiving the word of God and allowing themselves to be nourished like a child?" Bishop Schneider asked.

In 1969 the Vatican published an instruction allowing bishops to permit the distribution of Communion in the hand. While at papal liturgies most people who receive Communion from the pope receive Communion on the tongue, they also are permitted to reverently receive the Eucharist in the hand.

Oh my! My Wifi too?

More on microwave radiation, I would like to share with you an email I received in my inbox some time ago regarding how the Swiss government is warning its citizens concerning cordless devices.

Magda Havas demonstrates how WiFi connects your laptop, iPhone and iPad to the internet via microwave radiation. You will also learn how WiFi base stations, portable phones and baby monitors constantly radiate microwave radiation. The Swiss Government feels that all of these devices have the potential to do great harm if used incorrectly and warn their citizens.

Mobiles 'may cause brain cancer'

By James Gallagher 
Health reporter, BBC News 
The World Health Organization's cancer research agency says mobile phones are "possibly carcinogenic". A review of evidence suggests an increased risk of a malignant type of brain cancer cannot be ruled out.

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Praise & Worship for Holy Mass?

I remember attending Mass after a spirit-filled Easter Rally when I was in high school. Some of the hymns were replaced by praise and worship songs (specifically, by Hillsong) and I thought to myself 'Wow, if only they would play more of these songs during Mass!'

Today, I would really think otherwise and frown if I do hear the choir singing one during Holy Mass. Fr. Christopher Smith explains it quite well why praise and worship is really not suitable for Mass at all!

Read his interesting post  here:

Why Praise and Worship Music is Praise, But Not Worship

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Here is an excerpt of what stood out to me in his article:

P&W music assumes as its first principle relevance.

P&W recognizes that music is important in the Church’s worship. But it also posits that music must “reach people where they are.” It must be relevant to those who hear it. Relevance, however, is an ambiguous notion. What is relevant to me may not be relevant to someone else, and so P&W introduces into the liturgy an element of subjectivism based on human concerns.

Often P&W is directed at an ostensibly missionary effort. The idea is that, if people find the music at Mass attractive or relevant, they might be brought into a deeper relationship with God. Yet, faith is a gift that comes from God, not from us. P&W attempts to clear the way for divine action, as if relevance could accomplish that.

P&W music confuses transcendence with feeling. 

The deliberate manipulation of the emotions by P&W often produces an excess of sentiment. The very strength of that feeling can induce some to think that such an event is the work of the transcendent God in them. Musical forms which truly are transcendent, in that they disengage from the emotional and bring the person above their emotions, such as Gregorian chant, are rejected because they do not necessarily cause an emotional event, which is seen as proof of divine action.

The constant spiritual tradition of the Church has taught to distrust feelings and to prize the transcendent holiness of God. It also teaches that human manipulation of other people’s intellects and wills is a violation against the freedom of the human person. When done in the name of God, it is also a violation of God’s sovereignty over the intellect and will of man, as it replaces the free action of God in the soul with a gimmick to make that action in theory possible.

•  Relevance is irrelevant to a liturgy which seeks to bring man outside of space and time to the Eternal.
• The Church must sing the Mass, i.e., the biblical and liturgical texts contained in the Missal and Gradual, and not sing at Mass man-made songs, if it is to be the corporate Worship of the Church and not just Praise designed by a select group of people. 
• The deliberate intention to manipulate human emotions to produce a religious effect is abusive, insincere, and disrespectful of God’s power to bring about conversion in the hearts of man.
•  The Church’s treasury of sacred music inspires and requires the highest attention to artistic excellence. It is also an unfathomable gift to the Church, and must be presented to the faithful so that they may enjoy that rich gift.    
 

Other related article you may also be intereted in:

• Questions on Sacred Music

Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis

I found this piece of news touching. Just like how a mother sacrifices for his child, so are the noble elderly doing the same for the future generation of their country. 

By Roland Buerk BBC News, Tokyo 

A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station. The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60.They say they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young.

Yasuteru Yamada said people from all walks of life were welcome to join the group

It was while watching the television news that Yasuteru Yamada decided it was time for his generation to stand up. No longer could he be just an observer of the struggle to stabilise the Fukushima nuclear plant. The retired engineer is reporting back for duty at the age of 72, and he is organising a team of pensioners to go with him.

For weeks now Mr Yamada has been getting back in touch with old friends, sending out e-mails and even messages on Twitter. Volunteering to take the place of younger workers at the power station is not brave, Mr Yamada says, but logical.

"I am 72 and on average I probably have 13 to 15 years left to live," he says. "Even if I were exposed to radiation, cancer could take 20 or 30 years or longer to develop. Therefore us older ones have less chance of getting cancer."

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Pope: Church music should provide 'sense of prayer, dignity & beauty'

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In giving priority to Gregorian chant and to classical liturgical music, the Catholic Church is not trying to limit anyone’s creativity but is showcasing a tradition of beautiful prayer, Pope Benedict XVI wrote.

Music at Mass should reflect the fact that the liturgy “is primarily the action of God through the Church, which has its history, its rich tradition and its creativity,” the Pope said in a letter marking the 100th anniversary of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music.

In the letter, released by the Vatican May 31, the Pope wrote that sometimes people have presented Gregorian chant and traditional church music as expressions “to be overcome or disregarded because they limited the freedom and creativity of the individual or community.”

But, he said, when people recognize that the liturgy does not belong to an individual or parish as much as it belongs to the Church, then they begin to understand how, while some expressions of local culture are appropriate, priority should be given to expressions of the Church’s universal culture.

He said music used at Mass must convey a “sense of prayer, dignity and beauty,” should help the faithful enter into prayer — including through use of music that reflects their culture — and should keep alive the tradition of Gregorian chant and polyphony.

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Li' cousin chanting

Last Sunday, I brought my 10 year old cousin to the Old Latin Mass. And was I suprised at how fast she picked up at chanting the Gregorian Chants. I thought that was really lovely.

Seeing how easy it was for my little cousin to accept and chant regardless that she has never heard them before, made me think of why Jesus said, 'Let the little children alone, and do not stop them from coming to me; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of Heaven belongs.' Matthew 19:14.

On the contrary, unfortunately, many grown-ups shun at the sound of Gregorian chants and are not able to accept that Gregorian chant be suitably esteemed and employed as the chant proper to the Roman liturgy. (Sacramentum Caritatis §4)

I think it the same goes with accepting Latin as the official language of the church. Because it is such a 'foreign' language therefore many write it off as 'irrelevant' to modern times.

Anyway, here's a video of  a solemn pontifical Tridentine Mass that was celebrated in St. Peter's Basilica a few days ago - a prove that this traditional Masses are being celebrated within the Vatican walls:

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you might find
You get what you need.

- song by Rolling Stone 

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.
- House S7 Episode 19, The Last Temptation

The Claude Newman story

The following story of Claude Newman took place in Mississippi in 1944. The account was told by Father O'Leary, a priest from Mississippi, who was directly involved with the events. He has left for posterity an audio recording it.  This is the story transcribed here.

Claude Newman was a negro man who worked the fields for a landowner. He had married when he was 17 years old to a woman of the same age. One day, two years later, he was out plowing the fields. Another worker ran to tell Claude that his wife was screaming from the house.

Immediately Claude ran into his house and found a man attacking his wife. Claude saw red, grabbed an axe and split the man's head open. When they rolled the man over, they discovered that it was the favorite employee of the landowner for whom Claude worked. Claude was arrested. He was later sentenced for murder and condemned to die in the electric chair.

While he was in jail awaiting execution, he shared a cell-block of some sort with four other prisoners. One night, the five men were sitting around talking and they ran out of conversation. Claude noticed a medal on a string around another prisoner's neck. He asked what it was, and the Catholic boy told him that it was a medal. Claude said, "What is a medal?" The Catholic boy could not explain what a medal was or what its purpose was. At that point, and in anger, the Catholic boy snatched the medal from his own neck and threw it on the floor at Claude's feet with a curse and a cuss, telling him to take the thing.

Claude picked up the medal, and with permission from the prison attendants, placed it on a string around his own neck. To him it was simply a trinket, but he wanted to wear it.

During the night, sleeping on top of his cot, he was awakened with a touch on his wrist. And there stood, as Claude told the priest later, the most beautiful woman that God ever created. At first he was very frightened. The Lady calmed down Claude, and then said to him, "If you would like Me to be your Mother, and you would like to be My child, send for a priest of the Catholic Church." With that She disappeared.

Claude immediately became terrified, and started to scream, "a ghost, a ghost", and fled to the cell of one of the other prisoners. He then started screaming that he wanted a Catholic priest.

Father O'Leary , the priest who tells the story, was called first thing the next morning. He arrived and found Claude who told him of what had happened the night before. Then Claude, along with the other four men in his cell-block, asked for religious instruction, for catechism.

Royal wedding: What's with the hats?

The royal wedding was certainly a splendid and most envied one. I simply loved Kate's wedding gown, love the long sleeved lace and its simplicity.

It was also undeniably a fashion parade when the women guests arrived with their stylish attire and perhaps most captivating to the audience were their hats!

Well, aside the fashion statement each lady was trying to portray, did you know that there are reasons for their head coverings in church? This includes why the bride wears a veil too.

Meanwhile, if you can recall, both princes (and all the other men in uniforms) removed their caps upon entering the abbey and put them on again as they exit the church.

So, men remove their head coverings while women wear head coverings in the church. All these gestures mean something and are symbolical. Let's check out the biblical reasons to these:

1. Scripture

1 Corinthians 14:37

Anyone who claims to be a prophet, or to have any spiritual powers must recognize that what I am writing to you is a commandment from the Lord. 

St. Paul tells us in his first letter to the Corinthians (11: 1-16) that women must cover their heads because it is a Sacred Tradition commanded by our Lord Himself and entrusted to St. Paul.
 
2. Divine Hierarchy 

 1 Corinthians 11:3

But I should like you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

There is a hierachy established by God, in both the natural and religious spheres where the female is subjected to the male. In a marriage, God has given the husband authority over his wife as mentioned by St. Paul to the Ephesians:

Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives should be subject to their husbands as to the Lord, since, as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife; and as the Church is subject to Christ, so should wives be to their husbands, in everything.

Nevertheless, we should be clear that this subjection does not degrade women in any way because in God’s kingdom everyone is subjected to a higher authority.

1 Corinthians 11:12

...and though woman came from man, so does every man come from a woman, and everything comes from God.

3. Symbol of Christ's Incarnation

One should know that in the Old Covenant, both Jewish men and women used to cover their heads when they were worshiping. However, later the Jewish Christians changed this custom as they did with many other Jewish customs. The practice of veiling is to be a symbol of Christ's incarnation (God the Son in human flesh). As mentioned in 1 Corinthians 14, these customs were not man-made, rather inspired by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 11:4-5

For any man to pray or to prophesy with his head covered shows disrespect for his head. And for a woman to pray or prophesy with her head uncovered shows disrespect for her head...

I shall quote Catholic Knight here:
Again, this goes straight back to the incarnation. All of this is a symbol of what we Catholic Christians believe about Christ, his incarnation, and the Eucharist. Paul tells us that if a man covers his head during mass, he dishonors his spiritual "head" which is Christ. In other words, a man who covers his head during mass dishonors Christ, because his action of veiling himself sends the physical statement that Christ was not incarnate as a man. The woman, on the other hand, representing the Church, ought to cover her head because if she believes that Christ is truly incarnate, she should veil herself as a sign that the Church has been made holy by Christ as his spouse. In doing so she honors Christ as a symbol of his sanctification on the Church. She also honors her husband with a physical sign that he represents Christ, because Christ came in the form of a man. The chapel veil is a sign of holiness because Christ has made his Church holy, and women represent the Church as the "bride" of Christ. It is a sign that the Church is covered and under Christ's protection. This is the symbolism of the Church's relationship to Christ. It is not so much a statement of a particular woman's holiness, but rather the Church's holiness.


4. Angels

1 Corinthians 11:10

...and this is why it is right for a woman to wear on her head a sign of the authority over her, because of the angels.

St. Paul explains that the angels, who are well aware with the customs of the church and what they mean, are offended when we ignore or don't follow the liturgical customs of the Church. We know that the angels are present and participate together with us each time we celebrate Holy Mass as explained in the Holy Scripture by St. John:

Revelation 8:3

And another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense that he might offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which is before the throne.

As a conclusion, we know that the symbolism of the veil takes that which is invisible, the order established by God, and makes it visible.

Hit and run

I would like to ask for your prayers for my friend's mom who was involved in a hit and run accident on Wednesday.

As another vehicle knocked them from behind, she fell off the motorcycle and hit the left side of her head on the road (her helmet was detached from her head already then). Her father who suffered injuries on his leg tried to get help from the passerbys but none stop until an Indian taxi driver (God bless his soul!) offered his help. Isn't it sad how the Malaysian attitude has become?

Right now she is still in a coma. On Thursday the doctor performed a surgery to stablilize the compression in her brain. Her pupil which was not dilating before this started to dilate after the surgery - that itself was a miracle, because the doctor said that the chances were really small.

Yesterday another surgery was done, this time with unhappier news. The doctor mentioned that her brain is still bleeding.

We went to visit her in the hospital yesterday where she was placed in the ICU. My friend and her sister talked to her, and we could see tears from both her eyes and at a point, there was even slight movement of her lips. Before we left the ward, both of them sang her the bedtime song she taught to her grandchild when he was a baby. Sigh...During our 2nd visit with another friend, we prayed for her and chanted the Kyrie, Pater Noster and Regina Coeli.

Please continue to pray for a miracle and strength for the entire family.

Papal infallibility

I think God has a way to get me to learn about Him and His Church. A tough way, unfortunately. But with my take-it-easy nature, I think He knows that that's the only way to push me. Have slacked at blogging since after Holy week - since I'm back on Facebook and watching House :)

Today we debated about sacred music and then I brought up how the Popes are infallible in his teachings. I have learnt about that recently but he challenged me the meaning and the degree of the Popes teachings being incapable of making mistakes.

So here's what I've found out and would like to share to you - an excerpt from Wikipedia:

Papal infallibility is the dogma in Roman Catholic theology that, by action of the Holy Spirit, the Pope is preserved from even the possibility of error when he solemnly declares or promulgates to the universal Church a dogmatic teaching on faith as being contained in divine revelation, or at least being intimately connected to divine revelation. It is also taught that the Holy Spirit works in the body of the Church, as sensus fidelium, to ensure that dogmatic teachings proclaimed to be infallible will be received by all Catholics. This dogma, however, does not state either that the Pope cannot sin in his own personal life or that he is necessarily free of error, even when speaking in his official capacity, outside the specific contexts in which the dogma applies.

Pope Leo XIII as successor of apostol Peter and bishop of Rome
has infallibility; so he guides the ship of God's Church
through dangerous sea. This painting is published in 1903.

Many people do confuse these 2 words :

1. infallible - incapable of making mistakes

2. impeccable - not liable to sin

Here is another excerpt from Catholic Answers that explains this difference:

Given these common misapprehensions regarding the basic tenets of papal infallibility, it is necessary to explain exactly what infallibility is not. Infallibility is not the absence of sin. Nor is it a charism that belongs only to the pope. Indeed, infallibility also belongs to the body of bishops as a whole, when, in doctrinal unity with the pope, they solemnly teach a doctrine as true. We have this from Jesus himself, who promised the apostles and their successors the bishops, the magisterium of the Church:

Luke 10:16

He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, 

and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.

Matthew 16:18  

So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my community. And the gates of the underworld can never overpower it. 

Vatican II’s Explanation

Infallibility belongs in a special way to the pope as head of the bishops (Matt. 16:17–19; John 21:15–17). As Vatican II remarked, it is a charism the pope "enjoys in virtue of his office, when, as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith (Luke 22:32), he proclaims by a definitive act some doctrine of faith or morals. Therefore his definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, are justly held irreformable, for they are pronounced with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, an assistance promised to him in blessed Peter." 

The infallibility of the pope is not a doctrine that suddenly appeared in Church teaching; rather, it is a doctrine which was implicit in the early Church. It is only our understanding of infallibility which has developed and been more clearly understood over time. In fact, the doctrine of infallibility is implicit in these Petrine texts:

 John 21:15–17

When they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?' He answered, 'Yes, Lord, you know I love you.' Jesus said to him, 'Feed my lambs.'

A second time he said to him, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?' He replied, 'Yes, Lord, you know I love you.' Jesus said to him, 'Look after my sheep.'

Luke 22:32

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail, and once you have recovered, you in your turn must strengthen your brothers.'

Matthew 16:18  

So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my community. And the gates of the underworld can never overpower it.

Based on Christ’s Mandate

Christ instructed the Church to preach everything he taught (Matt. 28:19–20) and promised the protection of the Holy Spirit to "guide you into all the truth" (John 16:13). That mandate and that promise guarantee the Church will never fall away from his teachings (Matt. 16:18, 1 Tim. 3:15), even if individual Catholics might.

As Christians began to more clearly understand the teaching authority of the Church and of the primacy of the pope, they developed a clearer understanding of the pope’s infallibility. This development of the faithful’s understanding has its clear beginnings in the early Church. 

Peter Not Infallible?

As a biblical example of papal fallibility, Fundamentalists like to point to Peter’s conduct at Antioch, where he refused to eat with Gentile Christians in order not to offend certain Jews from Palestine (Gal. 2:11–16). For this Paul rebuked him. Did this demonstrate papal infallibility was non-existent? Not at all. Peter’s actions had to do with matters of discipline, not with issues of faith or morals.

Furthermore, the problem was Peter’s actions, not his teaching. Paul acknowledged that Peter very well knew the correct teaching (Gal. 2:12–13). The problem was that he wasn’t living up to his own teaching. Thus, in this instance, Peter was not doing any teaching; much less was he solemnly defining a matter of faith or morals.

Fundamentalists must also acknowledge that Peter did have some kind of infallibility—they cannot deny that he wrote two infallible epistles of the New Testament while under protection against writing error. So, if his behavior at Antioch was not incompatible with this kind of infallibility, neither is bad behavior contrary to papal infallibility in general. 

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