At this rate, everything any pope says is excused as “ex cathedra”, preserving the pretense of infallibility by never actually identifying any statement as such.
In 2005 Pope Benedict XVI remarked, "The Pope is not an oracle; he is infallible in very rare situations, as we know". Pope John XXIII once stated it with a humorous twist: "I am only infallible if I speak infallibly but I shall never do that, so I am not infallible".
Here's what happens (LINK) i f a pope tries to make an erroneous statement "as if" infallibly. Go ahead and click it's just 2 minute,s and you'll laugh.