Why hasn't the Catholic Church published an official list of every single infallible teaching?

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…Wouldn’t it have been easier to cite the official infallible list of RC teachings? … Think of how useful that would be to settle the rancorous dissent within Catholicism!
Should such an undertaking become necessary to maintain the unity of the Church then the Magisterium infallibly would do so.

Today, I don’t know of any “rancorous dissent” within the Church. Perhaps you know disaffected Catholics who are rancorously dissenting. The “list” you propose would not help them. They have a method to resolve their difficulty. If disaffected Catholics cannot agree with their bishop then they can appeal to the Vatican. If the Vatican supports their bishop then the dissenting Catholics have a difficult decision to make.

But why would a non-Catholic like you want such a list? Would it move you to conversion or to something else?
 
I didn’t know that the Vatican regards him as dissenting. I thought he was one of the official Vatican voices.
ewtn.com/library/Theology/ORPROBLM.HTM

PROBLEM OF DISSENT IN LIGHT OF THE ‘COMMENTARY ON THE CONCLUDING FORMULA OF THE PROFESSION OF FAITH’
Fr Adriano Garuti O.F.M.
Pontifical Athenaeum ‘Antonianum’

In the meantime the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a Reply to the “dubium” (28 October 1995), which affirms that “the teaching that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women belongs to the deposit of the faith and has been set forth infallibly by the ordinary and universal Magisterium”.[2] Leaving it to Scripture scholars to discuss whether in fact this teaching can be considered as divinely revealed, Fr Sullivan denies that it has been infallibly taught.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_A._Sullivan
 
Ironically enough, you all have done a lot of citing of various documents to show how you know when a teaching is infallible or not, or why we don’t really need an official list of infallible teachings.

Wouldn’t it have been easier to cite the official infallible list of RC teachings? Even better: why doesn’t the Church publish a list of teachings in order of their relative truthfulness? If only some things are infallible, mark them as such, and mark the others as “true but not infallible” or something like that. If you guys aren’t Pharisees (as was claimed) then it shouldn’t take too much effort at all. The Church could probably summarize her infallible and “true but not infallible” teachings on one page of single space small font, right? Think of how useful that would be to settle the rancorous dissent within Catholicism!
Could you make a list of this “rancorous dissent”? Specifically, which areas of dissent in categories? Maybe something like
  1. Disagreements with published Dogma
  2. Disagreements with the CCC (with appropriate section references)
  3. Disagreements with non-infallible teachings (preferably by region/arch-diocese)
That would be a really useful list for us to go down line by line.
 
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