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Q. What do you mean by the indefectibility of the Church?

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 2 by Anonymous

What is the difference between the infallibility and indefectibility of the Church?

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 3 by Anonymous

Still, I have gone a good way, as I think, to remove the objections to the doctrine of the indefectibility of certitude in matters of religion.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

Therefore indefectibility means that the Church can never change any of the doctrines that Our Lord taught, nor ever cease to exist.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.

All doctrines besides these were the accidents of his profession, and the indefectibility of certitude would not be disproved, though he changed them every year.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry