Exactly so. Just as one can be a patriotic American without getting caught up in politics, one can be a devout Catholic without getting caught up in the Church's politics. And as far as that goes, the politics of the modern Catholic Church is not the web of mediaeval intrigue that people infer from watching period movies. Dr. Rock and warmsunshine have demonstrated time and again that they know nothing about the workings of the Catholic Church and nothing about her dogmata and doctrines, so take their criticisms against that which they don't understand for what they're worth. The Church is an institution which will long outlive their grumbling condemnations. I have no intentions of walking away from a spiritual organisation that's been good to me. I concentrate on the good and do what I can to challenge the bad.