The Church is for sinners and it certainly has its share, but it also has a long list of saints and martres that few of its detracters chose to follow and hold as role models.

It's not because of its claim of guardian of God's truth that it's so loathed as much as its truthful message about the fallen nature of ourselves and what we must do to correct it that modern man doesn't want to hear.

I don't think it's logically obvious that one can't respect the RCC while thinking that it's fallen into some errors over the past 150 years.

Sure. But you'd think you'd find another church all the same.

Infallibility itself was announced only at Vatican I -- odd that so remarkable a doctrine was latent so long.

Some Catholics never accepted Vatican I -- I forget what they're called, but I don't think it's logically obvious that one can't respect the RCC while thinking that it's fallen into some errors over the past 150 years.

For that matter, it’s difficult to understand how one can simultaneously believe an infallible Pope is the Vicar of Christ and wish to openly defy him.

There are specific conditions for infallibility to be invoked. It is rarely ever invoked. I am only aware of one time in the past century (1950 - Assumption of Mary). I do not believe that the rule disallowing female priests has that stamp. If it did there would be no chance for female priests in the Catholic Church as one infallible teaching cannot contradict another.

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it’s difficult to understand how one can simultaneously believe an infallible Pope is the Vicar of Christ and wish to openly defy him.

Well they are suppose to believe that the doctrine of the church is infallible not the Pope, but that still leaves them in the wrong and in more then one way defiant.