Christ told us “The gates of hell will not prevail against it.”
Yes, there is some cleaning to do, but what about families, schools, non-Catholic ministers, etc.
Is it because people think the Catholic Church has more money?
Or are they motivated by communist and leftist energies that want to destroy the Catholic Church?
Gates are defensive, not offensive. Gates never attack anyone.
What Jesus means there is that when His body, the TRUE body of born again believers, presses forward and engages in spiritual warfare, the enemy will be defeated. They cannot stand against the offensive actions of the church waging spiritual warfare in power.
It is NOT a promise that some church would be protected for all time an eternity and therefore Catholicism will stand forever. Catholicism by its actions, has forfeited the right to call itself the body of Christ.
God has called us to holiness and the only way someone can operate in spiritual power is in holy living. Allowing sin in the camp WILL result in the loss of that power.
Catholicism is NOT prevailing against the gates of hell. For many people, too many, it has become the gates of hell.
Until and unless Catholicism cleans house dramatically and radically, and calls people to holiness and repentance, it will continue it's fall.
Jesus never spared the seven churches in Revelation which did not take care of the issues He confronted them with.
He's not going to spare Catholicism either.
And Clinton tried to tell us what IT is; too.
(Or was that IS??)