The Pope is not infallible.
in school our catechism (Baltimore 3 or 4 / maybe both) said we didn't need to read the Bible, that they'd teach us what we needed to know. Really? yep, the RCC men didn't want us reading God's word on our own. It was easier back then to keep us under its thumb but with the internet and a number of good bible teachers on TV and youtube people can easily access it.
If by infallible, you mean a condition by which someone cannot be in error (which is what I take the word to mean), then people are infallible all the time when they state tautologies.
That's funny that you ask for the reason why Catholics think the Catholic Church is the true Church and you're displeased because they say "because... because..." - that is, they give you reasons??? What do you expect them to say?
This is too funny now, Hibernian. You do realise that the pope's status as the head of a state is purely accidental and didn't arise until the Middle Ages? It could also end one day in the future.
Roman Catholics have to decide to simply go independent of their church and to seek God on their own initiative. Fear of the pope and fear of their church is what prevents them from doing that. And of course the pope knows very well that the refutation of his heresies are found in the Bible, but that's also the reason why he claims to be the one who has the exclusive right to teach it. And by doing that he eliminates the power of real and true biblical understanding - the Holy Spirit. The one who he has replaced with his church.
The governments of other secular States can be traced back to a certain time in history also but the differentce is of course that they are not the vicars of Christ , and they're not infallible and they're not making all kinds of strange and weird pseudo-theological statements.
I don't really get what you mean. As I've said, the pope's head of Vatican state is an accident of history and not essential to his office. And what's a pseudo-theological statement?
It was the same in my elementary school also Mica. In fact we were emphatically taught that reading the Bible was a sin. So, like generations of American Roman Catholics we memorized it's doctrinal formulations, as well as all kinds of different definitions for words used in Roman Catholic indoctrination programs, along with daunting lists of Roman Catholic sacraments, mortal and venial sins, virtues, various graces and the many and varied Commandments of the Roman Catholic Church. Actually we may have been the last generation of little innocent children to have that Baltimore Catechism shoved down our throats every single day, because actually the Baltimore Catechism was 'dead-in-the-water' just before Vatican II, in which the very language of Roman Catholic "religious education" changed.