[History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the Conflict Between Religion and Science CHAPTER VIII 35/37
There is no need to dwell on the unphilosophical nature of this conception; it is destroyed by an examination of the political history of the papacy, and the biography of the popes.
The former exhibits all the errors and mistakes to which institutions of a confessedly human character have been found liable; the latter is only ton frequently a story of sin and shame. It was not possible that the authoritative promulgation of the dogma of papal infallibility should meet among enlightened Catholics universal acceptance.
Serious and wide-spread dissent has been produced.
A doctrine so revolting to common-sense could not find any other result. There are many who affirm that, if infallibility exists anywhere, it is in oecumenical councils, and yet such councils have not always agreed with each other.
There are also many who remember that councils have deposed popes, and have passed judgment on their clamors and contentions.
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