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She argued it was a misandrist position to consider men, as a class, to be irreformable or rapists.

Some time after this, the Broederbond declared apartheid an irreformable failure and began work to dismantle it.

The doctrine of papal infallibility states that when the pope teaches ex cathedra his teachings are infallible and irreformable.

Trotsky considered Comintern to be irreformable and to have crossed over to counter-revolution under the control of a bureaucratic elite in the Soviet Union.

Their conduct in this respect is the more noteworthy because the Sixth General Council acted throughout on the assumption that the doctrinal definitions of the Roman Pontiff were irreformable.

A paper published in Living Tradition argues that a censure of an unspecified nature is potentially subject to future clarification or reform, unlike an ex cathedra definition which is by nature irreformable.

These three hundred perons included certain fossils, diehards, and "yesterday's leaders" of all irreformable religious and ethic sort, among them the last "Pope" who strangely insisted that he was not the last of them.

Although the pope has the chief part in questions of faith, and his decrees apply to all the Churches, and to each Church in particular, yet his judgment is not irreformable, at least pending the consent of the Church.

A satirical but often touching Russian novel whose indomitable heroine, Aglaya Revkina, an ancient, irreformable Stalinist, loathes the wimps and consumers who wrecked Communism; she cherishes a discarded statue of Stalin in her apartment for 40 years.

When that council declared that the pope has in the Church the plenitude of jurisdiction in matters of faith, morals discipline, and administration that his decisions ex cathedra are of themselves, and without the assent of he Church, infallible and irreformable, it dealt Gallicanism a mortal blow.

And therefore his definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, are justly styled irreformable, since they are pronounced with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, promised to him in blessed Peter, and therefore they need no approval of others, nor do they allow an appeal to any other judgment.