The Papacy and all that it entails is antithetical to the teachings of the one and only Mediator between God and Men.
"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"
~1 Timothy 2:5
The Pope, Mary and the "Saints" are false mediators. All the Pope has done is call down the wrath of God upon himself and the lost souls who abide his words.