Your problem is that for you the hurch is the hierarchy.  The hierarchy is composed of human beings PERIOD.  They don't know everything.  And they don't know everything that we need to fulfill the great plan that God has for us.  We can get that from the entire CHURCH---the People of God---which includes the 98% who are the laity.  And most of all, we learn from the wonderful signs that God has given us in creation, in the wonders that God placed there for us to discover.  We learn of God's love and goodness from our families and friends who physically mirror God's unbounded love.

You are quibbling about 'refined intellects' but apparently demonstrating a concrete understanding of the concepts of Vatican II has escaped your concept of refinement.