ROFL When you don’t have the firm foundation of scripture to stand on I can easily understand the apprehension.
The Catholic Church never claimed to posses the Protestant knack for interpreting all parts of the bible at will. Instead, the Church solemnly reveals God’s infallible teaching for all time and all peoples only when inspired by the Paraclete. Such responsibility cannot be taken lightly or exercised superfluously. One can only imagine apostolic successors exercising such divinely ordained authority with great awe and trepidation. Understandably, it is historically rare for popes to promulgate teaching from the chair of Peter. Much more often, popes merely repeat the words or their predecessors.