text: If you believe that Jesus established a hierarchic Church and that the Church really is hierarchic and that the obligation of every Catholic is to accept what the apex decrees, be submissive to the apex and that failure to accept it all dooms one and all to hell, then okay.
  This view has some merit. If, for example, the apex declares all humans are equal as persons then...? "War no more" then there would be no war. If the apex declares that we should have compassion on all, heal the sick, raise up the poor and uneducated to peership, great. If the apex declared that the intent of law supersedes the "letter", okay. If the apex declares that we be kind to on another in word - typed, spoken - and deed, maybe.
  
  However
  1.the Church really is not a hierarchy. To put it into "geometric" terms, it's two unequal  rhombus ("i" or "es"?)and a teeny-weeny triangle sitting on top;
  2.the "image and likeness of God" does not learn well or for long by dictate. Simple pedagogic reality.
  It don't work.