My dear man, God has told us what is going to happen. Im not sure where you are getting your information from but its not from Biblical prophesy. If you can give scriptural support for your beliefs lets have it. Otherwise we have to take it only as mans wisdom.
Dittos... lean not on your own understanding...
This would not stop the larger sweep of prophecy, Bear.
I am not introducing anything new here. Maybe you would be offended to see this “Whore” disappear (or you might turn on the Baptists for their role in this... I mention Baptists because they seem to be some of the most denominationally allergic Christians on earth... hardly ever does a Baptist boast of being Baptist). But this would not BE the Whore. It might prefigure the Whore in some of the things it did. The Whore is yet to come. Could you consider letting go of your idee fixe about the Roman Catholics and the Whore? Maybe Satan is charging your mind with so many accusations you can’t scope out what really is happening?