text: I never said the Church isn't perfect.  The human beings in the Church are not perfect but Christ is the Head of the Church and It is perfect, despite the imperfect humans involved.  God makes all things work to good and even the things that appear to our tiny brains to be failures, like the pedophile priest crisis and sexual abuse and abuses of authority, He will keep from doing their worst.  The gates of hell will NOT prevail.  Perhaps this is where you need to meditate.  Where is God in these things?  Why should a faithful Catholic remain faithful despite the failures of others?  Can man hinder God or change His truths?