CFC also asserts that because the immorality of abortion has not been infallibly defined by the pope, it is a teaching that Catholics are not bound to follow. Like many of CFC’s arguments, this is a half-truth that camouflages a clear falsehood. It is true that no pope has infallibly declared abortion to be morally wrong; but Catholics are obligated to obey not just the special infallibility present in the pope’s ex cathedra declarations. They are also obligated to obey teachings that are infallibly taught by the ordinary magisterium of the Church, or those doctrines that the bishops and the
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