Madam, – It seems to me (and I write as a non-believer) that Bishop Pat Buckley (March 6th) is conflating anything the Pope may decide to do with the question of infallibility. I seem to remember being told that infallibility operated only under certain strict conditions and these conditions do not appear to have been operative in any of Bishop Buckley’s examples.
Outside the narrow compass of infallibility I don’t think anyone has claimed any sort of immunity from human error. – Yours, etc,