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Only goodness can save us if the Church falls.

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. (Matthew 16:18)

The church will not fall. We must perservere and have faith that Jesus spoke the truth. Jesus also said that not all members of his church would go to Heaven. One of His own disciples betrayed Him. Eleven of his disciples rejected Him in His passion. He loves us very much, and He loves His church. We will get through this crisis, and we will be stronger for it.

God bless.

Indeed the Church will prevail over the Evil One and his minions. But have you considered the possibility that the Church founded on the day of Pentecost in the descent of the Holy Spirit on Christ's Holy Apostles may continue to this day not in the form of those in communion with the Pope of Rome, but in the form of those in communion with every other local church mentioned in the Holy Scriptures--that is what is now called the Orthodox Church?

After all, it was Rome which changed the Creed in contravention of the decrees of the Ecumenical Councils at the time of the schism. In the last century, the Orthodox Church offered more Holy Martyrs for Christ than the Church did in all the centuries previous, only to rise again from the Bolshevik persecution. The Evil One is obliged to attack the Holy Orthodox Church from without--the Jihad, the Crusades, the Turkish and Bolshevik Yokes. The Latin Church under the Roman Pope seems to sprout evils from within. All of the horrors laid against Christians by modern freethinkers--the Crusades, the Inquisition, the abuses which sparked the "Reformation" (note the scornful quotation marks), the wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries, forcible conversion of American Indians, and now the sex scandals most notably in North America, but also if one is attentive in Austria and (with a heterosexual twist) in Africa--were brewed within the Papal Church.