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.if we believed Christ’s Church could be destroyed by a bad Pope, we couldn’t really call ourselves Catholic anymore.

Unless of course, it was never Christ's real Church.

Then it's prophesy fulfilled.
Acts 5:
38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

When the people chose Linus I to lead their "Church" after the death of Peter, God went and spoke face to face with His real authority on the earth, John. God never spoke to Linus, nor has He ever spoken to any Pope.

Linus I couldn't have been the real leader of the Church, because John, an apostle, chosen and authorized by God Himself was still alive on the earth. Again, God backed that up by going and speaking to John face to face. Linus had no authority from God, never did.

This is why there have never been any prophets in the Catholic Church. Even though Rev 11 clearly states there will be prophets in the last days. They aren't Catholic.

Really? You want to do this now?

What are you talking about the “people chose Linus”?? The very oldest source we have (Irenaeus, ca. 160-180) says that the Apostle Peter personally appointed Linus, Cletus, and Clement over the Roman Church. Clement who, by the way, may well be the Clement mentioned by Paul, and who in any case was written to by the Church in Ephesus to settle a conflict while the apostle John was perhaps still alive—interesting in itself.

Also, two Eastern bishops: Polycarp, who sat at the feet of St. John, and Ignatius who likely did as well, both went to Rome, and both spoke in glowing terms about the Roman Church. Neither had any notion that the leaders who followed Peter “were not of God” of Christ’s Real Church as you claim.

I dunno where your got your church history from, but you’ve been fed a lot of bad information.