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.
“The churches in Revelation are symbolic.”
Darn strange God used real cities to be symbolic... but then maybe my geography is not what it used to be. What do the Churches symbolize? What do the lamp stands symbolize? Are the complaints of Christ and the compliments of Christ also symbolic? How do you know what the answer to these questions is...?
“The Catholic Church is pure - the people in it not necessarily so.”
How does that work? Without a single person, how is that a “gathering”? If you strip out all the people who make up the Church and the Bride of Christ, what is left? A gathering without people? A wedding gown with no one in it? How do you know the Church doesn’t include people? Without people, what is the Church?
“Hence, the very first paragraph of the Catechism:”
All well and good, but not inspired Scripture.