Not sure who Scott Hahn is...you'll need to elucidate.Here's your introduction.
But if you want to paint with a broad brush the supposed fallacy of an idea by the failings of one man
I wouldn't call it a failing, more like a succeeding.
we can start with the failings of dozens of priests controlled by a certain theocratic bureaucracy
"Controlled"? Did they have the brain implants and everything? Has this been on the Art Bell show yet? LOL.
The guys you're talking about, unfortunately, weren't "controlled" by Rome. In fact, they just plain weren't controlled.
My point exactly...they weren't controlled, a strong emphasis on Sola Scriptura, such as what the Southern Baptists preach might have helped the Catholic Church thru the years by providing a means of renewal in the church with-out the necessity ot the schisms that occurred thru the years. As a matter of fact, if the Catholics were to adopt Sola Scriptura in much the same matter as America adopted the constitution, the Church would be regenerated and the BUMS thrown out. I would even join the Catholics at that point.