The Guardian view on papal infallibility: an authoritarian U-turn | Editorial

Popes rarely admit their own mistakes. But Pope Francis has now done so, spectacularly, in a case of child abusePopes hardly ever pronounce infallibly: in fact they have only ever done so twice; on the other hand it is almost as rare that they admit to making mistakes. Last week all 34 bishops of the Roman Catholic church in Chile sent in their resignations to Pope Francis after he got the report of an investigation into the hierarchy’s attempts to suppress a child abuse scandal there