This is why papal infallibility is actually a conservative doctrine and it actually limits the power of current and more recent popes. Doctrines already defined as Dogmatic (e.g., Doctrines embedded in the Nicene and Apostles Creeds) can’t be undone, no matter how a current Pope tries to tap dance around them (Francis has not done so in these areas). Same thing for Sacramental Theology and Moral Theology. Moral Doctrines being an area he seems to tap dance around. So while Francis has not dogmatically done anything to change moral doctrine (i.e. homosexual acts as being sinful), he has in pastoral approach watered down criticizing them to such a point that one wonders if he holds opinions personally that are heretical. I think it is possible that the current Pope does personally hold some positions that are borderline heretical.
But as I said, he can’t use Papal authority to change already defined Doctrine. Any such proclamation would be null and void.
I agree.
He is using incrementalism, but he is not the first.
Pope John Paul II tap danced around the death penalty, substituting his own tender feelings for Biblical theology, laying the foundation for Francis to complete the heresy.