"The premise of this Catholic Update is there is no perfect Church—not when it is an ideal embodied by human beings who are, by definition, imperfect. As my friend Wally Kuhn says, 'All the boats leak. The only question is, which leaks least.' In what follows we will explore why I think the Catholic Church is the least leaky boat," writes O'Malley. "There are many embodiments of the Christian belief, but it seems inescapable that—no matter what its faults (and they are many)—the Roman Catholic Church does seem to be 'the original.'"