Are you a Catholic? If not, how can you make any assessments about the Catholic church? Your perspective is probably your problem.
Are you saying that today's church has any relation to what the early Christians had in the first century?
Do they look the same?
Do they act the same?
Do the saints operate in the same fashion?
Is the knowledge of the Lord the same?
If you think it is, then maybe its not my perspective that is out of kilter...