From my point of view, the Roman Catholic church has spent the last 1,200 years emphasizing that the occupant of the Seat of Peter has supreme apostolic authority. So I am puzzled by Catholics who diss the Pope. Why are you still Catholic, and not, say, Episcopalian or Continuing Anglican or Lutheran?

(Note well that I am not Roman Catholic, and this is a significant reason why; but I have great respect for my RC friends who revere the papacy.)