Well...are you implying that all the churches in Revelation are not Catholic Churches? :-)
Christ will keep His Church pure if it means taking away the lamp stand of Rome, as surely as He took it from other Churches. His Gathering will continue according to plan.
you wrote:
“Well...are you implying that all the churches in Revelation are not Catholic Churches?”
The churches in Revelation are symbolic.
“Christ will keep His Church pure if it means taking away the lamp stand of Rome, as surely as He took it from other Churches.”
The Catholic Church is pure - the people in it not necessarily so.
“His Gathering will continue according to plan.”
And as always the Catholic Church is at the center of that plan. Hence, the very first paragraph of the Catechism:
1 God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.