No one called Roman Catholic the Whore...Catholics will tell you that their 'Church' is an institution...Beyond any mere human who might wander into it or represent it...It is 'that' institution that is referenced in the book of Revelation, the Whore...
Well, still count me skeptical... I think some aspects of the institution may presage the Whore as Barack Obama presages the Antichrist. But it’s unlikely to be that actual Revelation’s Whore any more than Barack Obama is the Revelation’s Antichrist. That Whore will be VERY badly behaved, VERY sold out to evil; whatever the character of the Roman institution it at least still has a very stellar take on life issues, better even than that of a lot of evangelicals. It has served admirably as the world’s conscience in that area, of course the glory being the Lord’s not its. And the Whore also appears post rapture and after the Holy Spirit is “taken out of the way.” I can’t buy that the RC institution is the Revelation Whore. Even though I believe they’re wrong in their institutional stance. It is not evil enough.
And incidentally... the events of the Protestant Reformation have ended up largely forcing the Roman Catholic institution out of the secular government business, one of the more troubling “whorish” things into which institutions of Christendom have gotten if one has to use such crude language. It’s actually in a LESS bad position now than it had been.
Let’s get some perspective here. I think the institution does in troubling ways block the grace of Christ by making too much of its own role, but Christ still works around it to its people. Christ did not stop being a Conqueror because Christian men presumed to repeat the errors of the Pharisees.