Is the pope truly infallible? Sure, after his Secretariat of State "cleans" the transcript.
In this case, as MSNBC.com reports, Benedict had given a clear, "Yes...It is part of the (canon law) code," in answer to a reporter's question as to whether Mexican legislators who legalized abortion should be considered excommunicated. In a transcript released today, the "yes" was curiously missing after the Vatican fielded disgruntled reaction ever since the pope's response first hit the news. Apparently other changes were made as well, muting the response into...infallibility, we can only suppose.
Still, the best quote from the article, hands down, comes from Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao (though somehow I don't believe he is the first to coin the phrase) who remarked, "If men got pregnant, I'm sure this question would have been resolved a long time ago."
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