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Originally Posted by Helm
Dunno who Horkheimer and Adorno are.
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Damn, you basically quoted them verbatim. I would've figured you for a Dialectic of Enlightenment kind of guy. You might be
down with it.
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In any case, god's people on earth all claim divine guidance anyway, so there's no need for an alpha male.
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I don't know that everybody claims divinie guidance, they simply pursue it through prayer and their actions. From a Roman Catholic perspective (getting back to the crux of this thread), the Pope is essentially considered our voice of direction and clarity in the pursuit of that divine grace and guidance. But that doesn't mean his "agenda" ever really dictates our opinions and beliefs.
First off, there are several layers to Papal infallibility, like when a Pope speaks ex cathedra, etc., I'm sure you know all of this. Secondly, any given pope will have (and has had) their own little issues. John Paul II was an aggressive opponent of capital punishment, and as you may recall, he had a few things to say about war, too.
But I think if you took a survey of American Catholics, you might find that they land somewhere else on those issues, to put it nicely.