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I don't think that's how it works.

It's God's mind you have to "change", not the Pope's.

At least, if I understand Catholicism correctly.

95% of Catholicism is re-interpretation by the Church of their holy documents. Changing the mind of the church is definitely a thing - see heliocentrism.

Heliocentricism is not a religious belief.

Heliocentrism was a religiously-derived belief. There are certainly other examples - for some verses in the bible, there are hundreds of interpretations.

I am not sure how it "works" either. But, if the Catholic church could gradually change its position on slavery [1], surely it should be possible to do so on other matters as well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_slavery#Th...

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