Roman church leaders act as if when they go into executive session, their decisions are binding on God in Heaven as well as the RCC on earth.
The problem is that millions of RCs are caught in a spiritual scheme where eternal souls are at stake and the landscape keeps being changed almost yearly.
Of course, the RCC is not the only (religious) organization of men to act similarly.
One of the falsehoods that Protestants push is to try to reduce the Catholic Church to only Rome. It comprises of over a billion faithful and over 5000 bishops and is spread throughout the world. It is not the "Roman church" but the CATHOLIC (Universal) Church.