Hmm I guess if surrounding yourself with books and schools made you an intellectual then you would be right.
So did the Catholic church you are familiar with allow pedophile priests? Did it launch an all out attack on abortion even though it's not even mentioned in the bible? Did they build some of the most expensive and ornate churches in the world while ordinary people struggled with immense poverty? Does primacy of conscience explain why woman can't be ordained as priests?
Tell you what Kathie (assuming that is your name and you are not some sort of bot), answer even one of those questions in a well reasoned way and I will consider becoming Catholic.