the Pope is only infallible ex cathedra – off the cuff statements are of little or no merit – it seems the Pope had to be corrected that he had probably been misinformed in accepting evolution since it did not require millions of years for coal and oil to form or be formed – btw it is not even anti Catholic to state that even St.Augustine was not infallible – hopefully most Catholics will now accept the experts and specialists,as advised and come back home – there appears to be a lot of confusion and way out,weird and wacky teachings and teachers about that Catholics should be aware of and beware of imho – twinc