To date, no catholic has answered.
It’s hard to type with just one hand and one eye, but i will try...
Every church is a construct of man with flaws and faults compounded by politics and personal agendas. One’s relationship with God is truly personal, and the church one belongs to, might depend on a blind and mute faith, but God, the True God, remains stalwart and steadfast.
These are interesting times, when people of christian faith should not be bickering or positioning to be the last eaten by the crocodile.
Bless us, everyone, and may God have mercy on our souls.
Are you saying that Christ founded a Church on untruths?
Far, far from the truth. Christ founded the Catholic Church on the first Bishops and there was no other Church at all until the 1500s and Luther.
“Every church is a construct of man”.
I would expound upon this, every man made religion is a counterfeit, and inspired not by God or the Holy Spirit. Maybe as Freud might have put it, they attempt to satisfy a basic human need, but they always fall short.
True religion is founded by God. Whether it is the covenants He made with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Moses, David, or their fulfillment in the revelation of the Incarnate Word, only those covenants have validity.
The Catholic Church is the mystical body of Christ, the chosen instrument, chosen by Jesus Christ, through which He shares with all generations the Good News of His salvation and the overflowing fountain of Grace he won for our redemption on the cross.
That there are divisions, scandals, and rifts that do not heal are a sad reminder of how poorly we cooperate with the graces available to us. But even so, we pray as the publican prayed, not as the Pharisee. We rally to the Barque of Peter as the storms rage, and we find consolation in the Sacraments because Christ is there, just like He said He would be.
Which is the bigger miracle; that the Catholic Church is founded by Christ on the Apostles and guided by the Holy Spirit, or it has survived two thousand years allegedly as a total fraud?