There are not more Catholic "sects" now than in 1455. Communities within the church are fully obedient, or they don't survive. The Orthodox Churches would find your characterization offensive: they are not "sects" of the Roman Church and never have been.
Doctrinal differences aside, the statement is incorrect as it applies to the Orthodox Churches, which split with Rome in 1054, five centuries before the Reformation and almost as long before the ascension of the first Borgia Pope.
MrT5 was career military, so I’ve traveled a bit and have attended plenty of Catholic churches, Roman and otherwise-damned few of them are fully obedient-especially in places that are isolated-and those don’t have empty pews, either.
Catholics in civilized places don’t consider the pope’s word the only word-other than in some 3d world or socialist countries-like maybe Argentina-where the church only exists because the government allows it to as an extension of their dogma-it is all that is allowed, because those are not free countries. This pope apparently does not understand people-Catholic or otherwise-who live in free countries, and do not fall to the ground when he speaks...
You do not approve of Catholics?