He is what satsfies and enlarges our understanding....oddly enough catholics seem to think you have to have a broad understanding of their churches history as well.....and that picture isn't at all pretty or desirable...Seems to me they didn't listen then either, nor could they agree with one another... no wonder there was the reformation!
God gave them so many chances to put away the pagan rituals and practices which they welcomed into the church... instead they built on them.... So then God rose up the willing who would lead the faithful out of the vileness the church had become...and still retains to this day....they still have not learned and hold tightly to those same pagan practices.