Hi Emilia,

Thanks for your question.

You seem to have a misunderstanding of what infallibility is.

It is not impeccability !!

That is it does not refer to the Pope's personal Holiness.

Infallibility is a gift which protects the Pope from OFFICIALLY teaching defining error as truth in the area of Faith and Morals.

That does not mean that he himself will necessarily not violate the same truth he teaches.

For instance in Acts 15, St. Peter definitively declares that Gentiles did not have to keep the Kosher Laws or be circumcised in order to become Christians.

Later we read in Galatians that he violates, at very least, the spirit of this infallible declaration. St. Paul writes that he had to rebuke Peter for not eating at the same the table with gentiles so as to keep the Jewish believers happy.

In granting his daughter 6 annulments, Alexander was not teaching on annulment, he could have been breaking the Church's doctrine.

As for Savaonarola, again Alexander seems to be guilty of a pretty serious personal sin !! The execution of Savaonarola along with that later execution of John Huss, were part of the sad background of the Protestant Rebellion.

As the Catechism says (CCC 817) anytime there is division there is most likely sin by MEN on both sides of the issue. This incident is truly a black eye on face of Church History However, this horrible execution is not covered by papal infallibility either.

God Bless,

John DiMascio