I am glad you have faith in the Catholic Church. I do not portray myself as an expert in any denomination.
I hope you enjoy where you are at, and grow there. I do NOT believe there is a single earthly church that has the “patent” on Salvation.
As to where I place my trust, I would rather place my faith in the Christ Jesus, and not any denomination.
I am a follower of Christ, not Paul. Here’s what Paul said about “followers”
1 Cor 3:4
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
so according to Paul, Pauline succession is nothing. You will get rewarded by your labours. Reward is not salvation, those are different topics....
Then don’t judge what you don’t understand.
At least I have a grasp on what Protestants believe because I was one. Protestant characterizations of Catholic beliefs don’t even scratch the surface.
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.