I think it’s getting a lot harder for people to buy into the pope’s claim to “infallibility”.
At best, this was supposed to mean he has the power in certain circumstances to enunciate absolutely correct Christian doctrine.
And so he might. But so does anybody else who understands the bible. He isn’t that special.
What “infallibility” means is that even if a Pope should be a jackass or a scoundrel or a madman, God will prevent him from officially corrupting core teachings of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis is, in my opinion, at best, an egomaniacal buffoon; at worst, diabolical. Indeed, he already has casually contradicted Humana Vitae during the course of one of his airplane press conferences. However, he has not and cannot officially change real Catholic teaching. This is why you are seeing the push-back from theologians over that bizarre footnote that seems to endorse giving communion to the divorced, remarried, and unchaste, in a recent papal letter.