The CC lost all credibility after the pedophilia industrial scale scandal. Contradictions you say ? To non-believers it is very difficult to ascertain just what that church is all about.
Agree with you, and many in the church also do as well
But one thing that you don't know about it is how did it get to that stage, without going into and opening books, all you have to do is follow the bread crumbs left by the modernist
Since the reformation and the enlightenment they knew full well the CC was the one to get rid off in order to change the world and get their hands on power, the only way was to enter it and discredit it
This very pope last week has admitted he's been used
You need to do is an in-depth study of freemasonry and modernism to see how not only the whole planet been brainwashed into excepting all this, but even have infiltrated the CC, how else the like of the WEF would get in control as CC teaching especially on human dignity is completely their opposite
You will find that it was a Catholic priest that came up with the big bang theory, and the Vatican has its own telescope and astronomer, even scientists working with the Hydron Collider also have a science academy to which Steve Hawkings was a member and many atheist too