You know resettozero, I was in the process of answering your questions. Had a reply typed up and everything. Then the Holy Spirit came to me and said, "wait a moment."
Now, in the spirit of charity I will answer your questions. First of all if a straight-forward question is asked of me that is not replete with presuppositions, modifiers, qualifiers and an embedded anti-Catholic bias then that person will receive a straight-forward answer.
You may consider what I say to be largely deflective balderdash but I do seem to recall that you and I had the beginnings of a half-way decent dialogue earlier in the thread. Who remembers about what at this point.
Yes, I will defend the Catholic Church and no I will not knowingly lie to do so.