[boatbums]

Okay, first, as I’m sure many people are aware, there aren’t tens of thousands of Protestant denominations. This article from the National Catholic Register confirms as such. The source for that claim is faulty, also listing hundreds of Catholic denominations:

Boring, isn't it? Anytime some Catholic "apologist" uses that insipid, disproven argument, I know that whatever else they are trying to prove with it is suspect and probably bogus. Mr. Pope has lost credibility with this article of his. He's singing to the choir only - the choir that wants their ears tickled and is uninterested in the truth.

[Faith Presses On]

I was certainly surprised that a Catholic priest would make that claim. I would think he’d know differently. It’s absurd on its face, for one thing, and you’d think a Catholic priest would see that, but you’d also think he’d want to track down where the claim came from to see whether it was true or not.