Because the Catholic Church is top-down and tries to be unified, unlike other churches that are bottom up and therefore more chaotic. The Pope's job is to figu

Because the Catholic Church is top-down and tries to be unified, unlike other churches that are bottom up and therefore more chaotic. The Pope's job is to figure out how to keep the Church unified in matters like this. This is the issue of our time. Centuries from now, other issues will split the opinions of individual church members but the Pope's of the future will continue to try to keep the Church unified despite those issues. > We completely ignore most of our holy text anyway Biblical Literalism is heretical. The Church has always placed emphasis on tradition Catholic Faith Mysteries like the Assumption of Mary were never in the Bible but instead a tradition of the Catholic Church. From the start or at least documented to nearly the start of our Religion: we got documentation of these traditions dated to like 300ish A.D.