The Catholic Church hasn't said it has a problem. To rephrase: Somebody said at some time somebody in the Catholic Church will need to think...
It's easy to have a problem with subject and verb.
Do you have a secret camera trained on my workstation?
"CARA is a non-profit research center that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic Church. Founded in 1964, CARA has three major dimensions to its mission: to increase the Catholic Church's self understanding; to serve the applied research needs of Church decision-makers; and to advance scholarly research on religion, particularly Catholicism"
Well, confuse me! Here I thought the Catholic Outer Space Research Institute for Spaghetti Concepts actually was connected to Rome...but, no, it is just intended to "...increase the Catholic Church's SELF UNDERSTANDING..." It appears some of that is needed.