Ask the LDS folks in Utah about their "Prophet, Seer, and Revelator," and you'll find out that he's the one with the true gift of complete and utter infallibility. If he says anything at all, it's as if God himself is speaking. That fails to explain why an omniscient and omnipotent being would require the use of intermediaries, agents, mouthpieces, third parties, go-betweens, modalities, escrows, or partially senile old white guys to speak divine truths, but it is hilarious to hear Mormons and Catholics arguing about whose top man acts as the conduit between the almighty and we unworthy earth dwellers.

The basis of the religion itself, as most of us here believe, is not rooted in fact or reason. You expect its tenets however to be reasonable? Jesus died for our sins is perfectly reasonable

That's not quite accurate regarding the Catholic Church's dogma on papal infallibility. It isn't that everything he says is deemed infallible, but rather that he can invoke infallibility under certain circumstances. To date, papal infallibility has been invoked only twice: 1) the Immaculate Conception of Mary and 2) the bodily Assumption of Mary into Heaven. It's still ridiculous, and the Catholic Church should be criticized for this belief, but we should be careful to criticize actual teachings and avoid inadvertently attacking straw men. To be fair, though, I think even most Catholics don't understand what papal infallibility is or that it's been used only twice.

My only opinion is that they are all wing nuts, and I don't care at all what they believe or don't believe.

Laughable indeed. Even more laughable is the blind acceptance by more than a billion people of the infallibility of the Qur'an and "the prophet".

I know very little about the catholic religion, but it is my understanding that the pope receives his infallibility directly from communicating with god, therefore the infallibility part is god and not the pope.