“Pope St. John Paul II declared that the Church has taught in an infallible and irrevocable manner that women cannot be priests. Thus, if the Church were to reverse this teaching, that would (obviously) falsify Catholicism, since she can hardly ever claim to teach infallibly and irrevocably if even purportedly infallible and irrevocable teaching can be reversed.
“Lewis’s conception of papal authority is not Catholic. In fact, he is committed to the voluntarist caricature of the papacy promoted by the Church’s enemies, according to which a pope can teach just any old thing he wants – even reversals of infallible traditional teaching – and the reversal will itself somehow magically become “traditional” or even “infallible.”
“This is worse than theological incompetence. It shows an incapacity for elementary logical reasoning. And it gives aid and comfort to critics of Catholicism insofar as it lends false credibility to the charge that Catholic claims to doctrinal continuity are spurious and that the Church’s defenders are intellectually dishonest.”
- Edward Feser responding to this piece of spectacular stupidity:
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