Many of the teachings and practices in the Catholic church lack support from scripture, why believe in them?
While you find many things in the Catholic church not referred to in scripture, that it partially because Jesus never formally told the apostles to go and write the gospels. He told them to go out and teach others. Those teachings started right from Peter… the “rock” on which the church was built. Since then, there has been an unbroken succession of Popes for almost 2000 years. No organizational structure, government, or any social structure created by man has lasted as long as the structure and tradition (handed down by the teachings of Christ) as the Catholic church. While there have been corrupt individuals who have invaded this structure, who have broken moral laws and who have lived unholy lives, the teachings on faith and moral law have not wavered even once. Find any structure made by man that can claim the same. Only divine intervention could maintain such “infallibility.” For those who don’t understand the teaching of infallibility of the pope, it is believed that the Holy S
