Simple Catholicism is the life blood which pulses thru the arteries of Catholics in a dazzling array of cultures. As the name implies, it is not complex. We live in a culture which, like the proverbial ostrich, does everything it can to avoid the questions. When it cannot do that, it will then belittle them by appealing to compromise solutions. But I cannot bring you to that point by reasoning alone.
Faith is a gift and that free gift is received thru prayer.
It will not be comforting, at least initially, but it will involve you in a great adventure. I can show you that while an affirmative answer to each of the questions transcends reason, it does not contradict reason or science. At the same time it can be shown that a negative answer involves greater difficulties to sound reasoning. Even tho it is part of the air we breathe, its logical premises go against what we know most deeply to be true. But I will let you read the articles.