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[quote=Anonymous]As a few others have said, the Pope is only believed to be infalible when he is speaking "ex cathedra" - literally "from the chair" referring to the Chair of Peter.
To be ex cathedra, a statement must be:
- concerning matters of faith 
- applicable to the whole universal church
- spoken with the intent to be binding

So just because the Pope says that the place down the street has the best pizza in Italy doesn't make it so.

Oddly, there is some disagreement over how many times a Pope has spoken ex cathedra.  At least twice - about the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary.  There are some other times when a Pope has said that something is definitive, but didn't specifically say "hey y'all! This is ex cathedra!" so there's some disagreement about that.  Women as priests falls into that category.

So Trump blathering on about the Pope is classless and offensive, and one could argue that the picture was blasphemous, but a Catholic saying they disagreed with the Pope in support of Trump isn't necessarily going against fundamental church doctrine (even if it means they have really crappy morals and theology)[/quote]

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