Is it really maintained by Catholics that their Popes are infallible? If so I may have a doctrinal difference with my Catholic friends?
In extremely limited circumstances, the last one was 1950. This canard gets very old.
Yes, especially when it comes to things like global warming and EUA vaccines. 🤡
Several years ago, a devout Catholic told me that the pope ( John Paul II at the time) was infallible and could do no wrong.
The doctrine of papal infallibility means that the Pope cannot err or teach error when he speaks on matters of faith and morals ex cathedra.
They almost never speak Ex Cathedra. The last example of an ex cathedra decree took place in 1950, when Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary as an article of faith.
The Pope is not infallible about all doctrine. There arer strictures on when the Pope is considered infallible in the Church.