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From what I understand it is when the Pope speaks "ex cathedra" that what he says is absolute truth and therefore infallible. It is interesting to note that for the first 1000 years of the Church, the Pope was not considered infallible in what he said. In fact, many popes shied away from the Church councils of bishops because they would not agree with what the popes were teaching.You're describing the notion of "papal impeccability" (which isn't believed), not papal infallibility.
Some of these popes were adulterers (one was killed by a husband who found him in bed with his wife), fornicators with prostitutes, ordered the slaughter of tens of thousands who resisted them, and yet, when they spoke "ex cathedra" they were viewed as infallible and their words were equal to the word of God.
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