Rapparee says: "hierarchy with one dude at the top who has stated, unequivocally, that he can be infallible."

Show me one instance, just one, where a pope has said he was infallible. You won't find any. Certain statements of the Pope on "matters of faith or morals" can be declared infallible if certain very rigid criteria are met. There has been only one clearly infallible statement made since the doctrine of infallibility was declared in the 1870s. People think the Pope is infallible (some think his every word is infallible and must be obeyed without question), but you won't find that statement anywhere in official Catholic teaching.

Same with what I said about collegiality as opposed to people's illusion of an absolute papal monarchy. It's in the books - all people have to do is read. The Catechism of the Catholic Church goes into all that in detail.

-Joe-