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If infallibility is a charism properly belonging to the church, this can be so, in my judgment, only insofar as the indicative implies an imperative and the infallible church remains ever the fallible church, analogously to the way in which the justified remains ever the sinner, the believer ever the unbeliever, and so on. This is as true of exercises of the charism on the part of representatives of the church in acting as its magisterium (doctores) as it is of exercises of the charism on the part of the whole church in accepting the magisterium's teachings

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