THAT's EASY! You can know because we are the biggest bunch of horse's patoots ever gathered in one place. And yet we praise God and Jesus His Son!
If anything is clear it is that it wasn't the smarts or the virtue of Catholics that preserved the Church. What smarts? What virtue?
If it depended on our competence, the Catholic Church would have died long ago.
The candid humor is appreciated, but that basis for authenticity could be appropriated by other religions as well, which God allows as a test, and is not the real basis which is invoked.
Busy now but will try to get back later.