Yep, the Pope gets the exception on this one. It is called speaking “ex cathedra” - i.e infallible.
No, it's not. Please don't miseducate on Catholic doctrine. Read on the subject here.
-— Yep, the Pope gets the exception on this one. It is called speaking “ex cathedra” - i.e infallible. -—
The doctrine doesn’t apply, since he is no longer the pope. Even if he was the pope, he wasn’t teaching regarding faith and morals, and he wasn’t invoking the charism of infallibility..
But I believe that he is telling the truth.