Good points . . .
Though I don’t think the ship is all that tightly ran . . . on the whole.
I would disagree. On the whole the RCC is a very tightly run ship. Having a few weak persons in the US Army does not make it a loosely run military organization. The command structure is tight. The outputs are regular and according to standards. The same with the RCC. Organizationally, it is in every nation on the planet, and nearly in every county-sized unit. It has an administrative hierarchy that goes to the lowest level. It communicates extremely well up and down the line. It has a clear idea of the outputs it desires, and it is very successful at implementing those to standard.
I’m not talking about theology here, quix. I’ve addressed that in an earlier post.