If anyone has failed, it’s the Catholic church itself.
It’s failed all those people who left it for not teaching them *properly*.
I just provide links to what the Catholic church itself says, from the only source that you have said that you consider reliable for Catholic church doctrine.
If it doesn’t mean what it says, then they shouldn’t say it.
Look at my tag line.
It doesn’t fail only those who leave it. It fails those who remain—and that is worse. Many go through life never knowing the true Christian spirit.
But is doesn’t have to keep going on that way. I think by my change of heart and witness I have challenged my Catholic friends and made them think about the essentials more than they would have without that.
Not that I do it myself. “Just be yourself” were the final inspirational words of my favorite pastor—that’s if you are saved, of course—at the end of a long talk on evangelizing others. He found God’s voice at the very end of the talk. Brilliant, inspired words. You don’t have to connive and plan. Be your own saved self and He will do the rest.