Is the Papacy a Liability?

The papacy is a great asset in providing this, the unity in the church that is necessary for the continuity of faith. Without that lynch pin, you lose that unity and can only preserve tradition through a kind of inflexibility. It's like, well, as long as we don't change anything. We can keep everything unified, if we just but i think that becomes difficult to then be a church that can respond to things like how do you respond to harmonial contraceptive in the modern world?