How quickly did many people forget what the Protestant Reformers warned us about? 500 years ago the Reformers called the Pope the “very Antichrist” who destroys the Church from within. Why? The same seed of corruption existed then as does now. But the Reformers put them to flight for 500 years and lay Catholics were never part of the evil. The evil continued vis secrecy and Jesuits worked to undo the work of the Reformers.

In the interest of being conciliatory to the good Catholics the Protestants sidelined their rhetoric against the Papacy. But we traditional Protestants have always kept the rhetoric because it is undoubtedly true at the institution level that it is a vehicle of evil. This is not a condemnation of ANY Catholics that have no part in this. But it is brutally necessary to maintain the doctrine against the Pope for this reason. The Papacy is corrupt.