[Thane_Banquo]

'Infallibility' only applies to if the pope declares something 'ex cathedra.' That only happens rarely. It last happened in 1950 when Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary as dogma.

Correct, but all he has to do is declare himself to be speaking ex cathedra, and then say being gay is okay.

[irishjuggler]

If he attempted to declare ‘ex cathedra’ something so obviously incompatible with the Old and New Testaments, as well as 2,000 years of Catholic doctrine, he would be a manifest heretic.

[Claud]

Correct, but all he has to do is declare himself to be speaking ex cathedra, and then say being gay is okay.

Doesn't work. The minute he speaks heresy he can no longer speak for the Church. It's not *his* Church, after all, it's Christ's.