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The Catholic Church has kept the same teaching on every matter that is infallibly defined but other matters are opinions or incomplete views not yet decided.
If one dislikes infant baptism then do not have your own infant children baptised. Of course choosing to do so is wicked. Baptism is for the forgiveness of sins and for the incorporation of the one baptised into the body of Christ. Baptism saves those who are baptised not by washing away bodily...
I wonder if Catholics do a better job ...
Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
and with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing earthly minded,
For with blessing is His hand,
Christ our God to earth descendeth,
Our full homage to demand.
King of kings, Yet born of Mary,
As of old earth He...
Here's a few more ...
(John 1:40) One of these two who became followers of Jesus after hearing what John had said was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.
(John 1:44) Philip came from the same town, Bethsaida, as Andrew and Peter.
(John 6:8) One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's...
You complain that you don't see enough scripture and when it is given you call it "Ambiguous waffle". That is about what ought to be expected in such cases. Nevertheless here are more passages for you.
(Matthew 4:18) As he was walking by the Lake of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon, who was...
I suspect that in most places there comes a time when there is a power struggle between decent people who do not want power and jerks who lust for it. It is often the case that the jerks win.