frogprince

There is faith, and I agree that it has been said to be a state of mind, trancending the logic we live with every day.

But, to the central part of the post topic, there is the governing body of the RC church, (as you say the structure), which is made up of people. Outside the faithm, there is the the structure, hierarchy, practices, and doctrine. Concern for these within the RC church have been seen in the pedophile priest scandal.While not impacting faith, the other aspects were badly bruised.

There are many cases in history, where patriotism was challenged by differing views on the structure, hierarchy, practices, or doctrine of a government. One well known examples to the west was the Vietnam war period.