Aha, therein is your 'error'! You listen to Canadians. :)
Truth be told, I (of all people!) very often listen to Christian Family Radio and find most of the sermons "orthodox" and wonder how come we can't find the same level of agreement and common thread of Christian unity on the FR (wouldn't it be nice if we could?).
[+Ignatius] tells us that the “fullness” of The Church exists in what we now would call a single diocese
He said "the Chruch is where the bishop is." In other words, the Church is not made up of (local) "parts". Every church (lower case 'c') no matter how large or small, how metropolitan or provincial, that makes Eucharistic offers, contains the fullness of our Faith.
As the NT shows us, out of the twelve, one was the devil. If the Church were a top-down "organization" and infected top will lead the whole Church into error, as you observe. But with each church being "fully" Church it is practically impossible.
Our Portestant friends can argue that they only took the autonomy given to bishops in the Church one step further and gave it to every believer, thereby decreasing the likelyhood of everyone following others into error even further, as each member of the church becomes his or her own "bishop".
It makes sense, but it is not scriptural. The Bible tells us that not everyone is appointed to be an apostle, or a teachier, and that royal priesthood is God given.
In the liturgical makeup of the Church the wisdom and the knoweldge of all the saints and prophets is contained in one unit, something no individual can claim. God did not, and does not, reveal everyting to one person. Instead, He uses many people for His purpose because, I believe, no one person could absorb and handle the entire Truth.
Thanks for the ping and your clear perspective to prayerfully ponder.
You may be unaware of this thread which demonstrates the kind of Christian SPIRITUAL unity that is possible on FR WHEN we CHOOSE to relate thusly:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1811920/posts?page=1
I have just put up today’s ONE ANOTHER at post #119 and my personaly response, devotional for yesterday’s is at post #90.
Blessings DEATH DEFYING CLEANSING THE HELL OUT OF ALL OF US, this Good Friday