The Consensus of the Church and Papal InfallibilityIn defining papal infallibility in 1870 the First Vatican Council asserted a strongly monarchical view: a papal definition of the faith is irreformable (infallible) by itself, and not from the consensus of the Church. These words explicitly reject Article 4 of the Gallican Declaration of 1682, which states that the pope cannot define the faith single handedly, apart from the consensus of the Church (i. e., the bishops of the world). This book offers