What I don't get, personally, (keeping in mind that I'm not Catholic and have never been Catholic), is why God can talk to the Pope and not to you. And why what you think God might be saying to you must be wrong if it contradicts what the Pope says, when it is clear historically, given the fact that different Popes put forth different requirements and claim that God requires different things, that a Pope is not infallible. For example, one Pope claimed Mary Magdalene was a prostitute when she absolutely was not. It was required for a long time that people believe that. Then later another Pope said, "Oh, uh, no, she wasn't a prostitute." So, I don't get why a Pope is supposedly infallible in what he claims God tells him, and why the common man or woman would be considered fallible or wrong in what he/she believes God says to him/her.

But this could be because I'm absolutely not Catholic and the idea of having to believe what some old man says without any kind of recourse to my own heart and mind just doesn't sit well with my rebel soul.