The RCC cannot claim to be inerrant unless they also choose to embrace their past actions as correct as done in Christ's name. To do so would be inexcusable, so I really see no defense wrt the subject whatsoever.
You haven't been on the Religion threads for very long, have you? /rhetorical question
It's possible to see one protestant say about another protestant confession, "Them fellers was wrong." But you will never hear them say it about their own confession. That's what's so funny: all the other protestants didn't get it quite right, they made mistakes, but if we concentrate on the Catholics, we won't have to take responsibility for all the (other guys') protestant errors.
It's almost like the demand for reparations. No living American owned slaves. Likely, their grandparents didn't either. No living black American was a slave, and likely their grandparents weren't either. But white America OWES reparations, because of what was done in the past.
In the same way, each individual Catholic is held responsible, by protestants, for every Catholic, pope, priest, and writer throughout the last 2000 years. I mean, seriously, posters have asked "What about what you did to Gallileo?" Honestly. Sometimes I wonder.