We're not speaking about every word of a pope being infallible. What we are discussing is whether you or I or anyone holds and speaks publicly something against the Catholic Faith that he KNOWS is against it. Formal heresy has the same criterion for everyone and is not a respecter of rank.
The infallibility canard tossed into these arguments is immaterial because if one were to employ it, then one would be stating that ONLY a pope can be a heretic, because only a pope has the charism of infallibility.
If Bergoglio or Ratzinger or any other disgusting sorry lot speaks publicly something that he knows is against the Catholic Faith, then that person is a formal heretic, thus not a Catholic by his own act, and thus incapable of holding any office in a Church of which he is not a member.
***If Bergoglio or Ratzinger or any other disgusting sorry lot speaks publicly something that he knows is against the Catholic Faith, then that person is a formal heretic, thus not a Catholic by his own act, and thus incapable of holding any office in a Church of which he is not a member.*
Agreed. We must pray like we never have.