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Of course I believe his words, I figured that what I wrote above made that clear. What puzzles me is that you claim to believe it, but in actuality you contradict it.

Regarding your quote about the Church always having a governing body, first of all, it didn't make it into Vatican I, so maybe the Holy Ghost prevented it from going in. Who knows. But it's not a statement of the magisterium, so it doesn't have any authority in itself. Even then, it doesn't say there will always be a living human being holding office in the college of bishops or the papacy. I realize there are different positions on this, and smarter guys than me believe it is Catholic dogma that there will always be a living person holding office as an ordinary, so I tread cautiously here ... but all the quotes adduced as proof of this don't seem quite specific enough to prove the claim they are offered in support of. Okay, so the Church will have "shepherds until the end of time", as Vatican I says. Of course I accept this. But I don't understand how that can't be understood to be simply a description of the fact that the Church has a perpetual structure of authority, both doctrinal and disciplinary, a structure of shepherds that will rule until the end of time. In other words, I don't see why this statement can't be taken as describing the structure within which the shepherds exercise authority, rather than referring to the shepherds themselves, as everyone seems to take it. Obviously, until the post-Vatican II era that distinction has never had to be made, so maybe that's why this quote is not as explicit as we would wish, but I really don't find this argument convincing by itself.