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On the Pope (''Du Pape'') is an 1819 book written by Savoyard philosopher Joseph de Maistre, which many consider to be his literary masterpiece. ==Sovereignty of papal power== The work is divided into four parts. In the first he argues that, in the Church, the Pope is sovereign, and that it is an essential characteristic of all sovereign power that its decisions should be subject to no appeal. ==Role of papal infallibility== According to Maistre, the Pope is consequently infallible in his teaching, since it is by his teaching that he exercises his sovereignty. Maistre's argument in favor of papal infallibility stands out in the history of theology because he was among the earliest Catholic writers to openly discuss the doctrine, which was not dogmatically defined until the end of the 19th century. Maistre mostly writes from the perspective of the ordinary magisterium having an infallible character, whereas the First Vatican Council defined a dogma on the infallibility of the extraordinary papal magisterium, in the limited circumstances when the Pope decides that it is time to define a dogma. Nevertheless, among modern theologians it is generally agreed that certain forms of the ordinary magisterium can at times be infallible, such as the bull ''Apostolicae curae'' or the encyclical Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, as John Paul II explained in Ad Tuendam Fidem. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「On the Pope」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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