[John W]

I would just say this in defense of my Catholic faith:
All of the “failings” of the Church that are noted here are failings of the human beings entrusted with the Church on Earth.
Human beings do fail.
None of those failings necessarily means that God did not intend for this to be His one true Church.

[defconw]

Well said. I just got back from Mass, I found the last paragraph of todays Gospel to be really interesting in lieu of all these discussions on FR. I had heard before a million times but it really stood out to me today.

"Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book. But these are written that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name."