And so you are suggesting that Protestants are partly responsible for the "gates of Hell" battle being "excessively close"?
Remember whose church has an ingrained pedophile hierarchy in the US. Perhaps you need to look within for your problem, first.
I think that was the whole point of the post. The Catholic Church has become disoriented since Vatican II. Even the most basic of Christ's mandates for her (to preach the Gospel to the world and convert souls to the faith) have been lost in the madness that is this false ecumenism.
And as an aside, the pedophile crises is not exclusively a Catholic problem. We just get all the press because of our size. Believe me, pedophilia and homosexuality are problems in other denominations as well.
An excerpt regarding moral problems with the clergy regarding drink, gambling, lustful desires and other sins. No one is impervious as it is the same sins that affect all.
"Help for clerics who lust after different life path by
Hazel Trice Edney
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
Similar stories are repeated in city after city, leaving behind devastated wives and families, angry and divided congregations, preachers fighting their own leadership boards and ending tortured in personal humiliation and self-loathing.
Hundreds of ministerial leaders stepped forward at the Jakes conference, confessing to weaknesses, failures and sins that they would normally preach about to their congregations. Following the conference, Jakes has been directing pastors to the American Association of Christian Counselors in Forest, Va., which has a network of 7,000 counselors across the country."
http://www.prometheus6.org/week/node/2004/02/08