There can only be one real Christian Church, as I see it. Truth can't be spread thin like peanutbutter, nor can it be reduced, diluted or altered to suit the individual's pride. For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has been proclaiming "we are the true faith". Five hundred years ago some prideful balloons split from the Church to found their own parallel churches, sans the Pope and certain Sacraments and other integral theology. I'll take my truth unadulterated, thank you, and have a Pope, as the early Church had Peter and then his successor bishops of Rome. You can have your "softer, easier way", a rudderless 'church' that caters to a human pride that cannot accept that God gave His Church a human head, a vicar to take the place of the Risen Christ. Protestantism is just another term for human pride, imho.
Go back and study your history click here before lecturing us protestants about the "a vicar to take the place of the Risen Christ" as I don't believe the Risen Christ would agree with all the choices Roman cardinals have made about whom should guide the church. You can have your former Seig Heiling Hitler enthusiast to head the Church of Rome...I'll stick to my Episcopal "pride" and apostolic succession from St. Peter.
Anyone who thinks the Catholic church is the one true church needs to simply read the history of the popes. Look at the political travesty that was the papacy during the reign of the Medici family and tell me with a straight face that Catholicism isn’t a worldly, political farce.