Vatican Embassy Protestor

[StealthySkeptic]

But the thing is that the pope says when he is infallible and only on a limited amount of subjects set by the hierarchy, so we just have to take his word for it like he's turning on a holy cheat code or something.

You don't have to take his word for anything. The Pope makes infallible statements regarding the doctrine of a church you are not a member of.

As for the pedophilia situation, you would think the Holy Spirit would give him the infallibly perfect solution that isn't controlled by the cardinals who seem to edit his statements quite frequently,

Unless you're advocating for divine mind control, the problem isn't that the Pope doesn't know what to do. It's that he doesn't want to do it. Like any other human being, Pope Francis makes bad decisions. We're back to square one.

but it only seems to SOMETIMES infallibly guide him where nobody can verify what he's saying is correct, and when he isn't correct such as the pedophilia situation, he isn't caught in an "infallible" lie. How convenient!

Yes, the Catholic Church made its doctrine convenient for itself. That doesn't disprove papal infallibity, not that I'm arguing for it.

What you said clearly means in my opinion that the doctrine of papal infallibility is manufactured to keep the good Catholic folks in line.



Which is one of the many, many reasons I left after I recognized how ridiculous that was- when I was TEN. And I would think that an issue that is so important that it's caused thousands to leave and millions to doubt would at least warrant a little consideration from God, if that is the Roman Catholic Church really IS Christ's church on earth.