Such is true with most (every?) institutions extant. It's a problem with recruiting queens (kings?) lieutenants and drones from the human race.
There probably isn't much wrong with the "Institution" provided adherents adhere to the rules.
Literate people living at the time of the Borgias and soon thereafter could make only one moral decision...join Martin Luther.
Since then the Lutherans through many Lutheran sects have followed more than one Yellow Brick Road to ruin. The same can be said for other Protestant persuasions.
They must recruit their puppets and puppeteers from that same flawed human pool. So many people, up to and including me, don't always adhere to the rules. We can only hope that Grand Puppeteer upstairs adheres to the rule his progeny insisted upon...forgive seventy times seven times.
The institution has requirements of people claiming to be members. There isn't anything immoral about the requirements. When any Pope insists upon following the requirements even when such is swimming against the current...especially when swimming against the current...it can be awesome and a source of pride.
Some Popes get a little confused. Not all of them.
“There probably isn’t much wrong with the “Institution” provided adherents adhere to the rules.”
Except for the firmly entrenched syncretic paganism and the loss of the Gospel of Grace.
“Since then the Lutherans through many Lutheran sects have followed more than one Yellow Brick Road to ruin. The same can be said for other Protestant persuasions.”
The sad, but wonderful thing is that every group that leaves the truth is cut off, like cancer from the fellowship of believing churches. What to a RC may look like a problem is exactly what Paul instructs us to do.
“We can only hope that Grand Puppeteer upstairs adheres to the rule his progeny insisted upon...forgive seventy times seven times.”
Oh, for believers - meaning those who’ve entrusted themselves entirely to Christ’s sacrifice for eternal life - all sins, past, present and future have been forgiven. His blood covers all.
Best.