The last line of this article today is a good example of this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1377090/posts?page=1
I'm not sure what you're point is about the Pope and condoms.
He stuck by what he saw as righteousness through thick and thin. He was plausibly wrong on a number of points. But he seemed to have integrity about what he believed. I don't fault himn for that, though I disagree with him about birth control and a lot of other things.
I can be wrong about a number of them.