Sorry, a catholic empowerment scheme is not The Way, The Truth, and The Light. It empowers the hierarchy but that hierarchy is without God’s Spirit in their dictating means to an end. God’s Grace is between GOD and the individual. GOD needs no intermediaries to dole out His Grace.
Jesus said his Church would be “the light of the world.” He then noted that “a city set on a hill cannot be hid” (Matt. 5:14). This means his Church is a visible organization. It must have characteristics that clearly identify it and that distinguish it from other churches. Jesus promised, “I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18). This means that his Church will never be destroyed and will never fall away from him. His Church will survive until his return.
Among the Christian churches, only the Catholic Church has existed since the time of Jesus. Every other Christian church is an offshoot of the Catholic Church.
Any merely human organization with such members would have collapsed early on. The Catholic Church is today the most vigorous church in the world (and the largest, with a billion members: one sixth of the human race), and that is testimony not to the cleverness of the Church’s leaders, but to the protection of the Holy Spirit.
https://www.catholic.com/tract/pillar-of-fire-pillar-of-truth
You can believe what you want and blame the Catholic Church or accept the teachings of Jesus and His Church. We are all sinners and the mission of the Catholic church is to lead us to eternal life with God.