What is death, when the Power that intercedes for you is God Himself?
I’m quite certain He would NOT let evil-doers in His Kingdom just because they paid the Church, so it was righteous to be anti-indulgences. The whole idea is a corruption. THAT battle of Luther’s was worthy of sainthood.
Anyway, I believe God plays the LONG game. Perhaps we Catholics need this Pope to remind us who we are not (Modernist New Agers).
Church as political system will only work when Christ returns. Until then it’s opening the doors wide to worldliness and corruption. That has long been true of both the Catholic church and any of those Protestant churches that have been or remain a State Church. Our Founders were wise and prescient.