Amen!
I am not Catholic, however, I am part of the original rabble rousers — the Lutherans. We long studied the Catholic church in all my Lutheran Education. I do find it interesting that there are good popes (JP II) and bad popes, popes in exile, competing popes (Avignon).
I guess it is true what Ecclesiastes writes:
Vanity of vanities, there is nothing new under the sun....