Does papal infallibility still apply, or do Catholic’s pick and choose depending on the pope?
It is very very rare that a Pope speaks ex cathedra, I.e. infallibly. He’s skirting it but knows there would be a huge revolt if he speaks heresy ex cathedra.
You need to look up the doctrine. Clearly you don’t understand it.
I am a Catholic who has received teaching from twelve years of nuns ...not one lay teacher...and I may have it all wrong but this is what I believe:
The prayer called The apostles’ Creed is what Catholics believe. Those words are the basis for the Religion, as far as I understand. A Pope is INFALLABLE only and really only on the tenets in the Creed. Anything else is BS. He has no authority to make pronouncements on what Catholics have to believe. Francis, being a Jesuit (SJ, stands for Society of Jesus) thinks he is the be all and end all of Catholic belief. He is wrong and along with all the other blips in Popery, he will be forgotten in short order, and we, Catholics, can return to the basics, without Francis’ interjecting questionable declarations. He is an anomaly. He will soon be gone. In the meantime, he should have no affect on any good Catholic.
The Pope is only infallible when he speaks ex cathedra.
Bergoglio has not done that, so Catholics are free to “pick and choose” which opinions he has that they agree with,