text: Is the pope the only living person who is guided by the Holy Spirit?   And therefore, the rest of the church is somehow bereft of the Spirit, and must keep mum and depend on the pope to transmit what God wants?
  
  I'm no scholar on this issue, but I don't believe the church is set up this way.   It does not hold that whatever a pope says is necessarily correct.
  
  For example, Pope Honorius I...was he guided by the Holy Spirit?   His views were called anathema by his successors.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Honorius_I