Your opinion is denied by the facts.
In reality, Roman Catholicism leads to the darkness of atheism and, God willing, to the light of Protestantism.
"Immigration is what is keeping them afloat," said John Green, a Pew senior fellow... Those who leave Catholicism mostly either drop out of church entirely or join Pentecostal or evangelical Protestant churches, Pew Forum director Luis Lugo said. One out of every 10 evangelicals is a former Catholic, he said, with Hispanic Catholics leaving at higher rates; 20 percent of them end up in evangelical or Pentecostal churches... "Evangelical Protestants outnumber Catholics by 26.3 percent (59 million) to 24 percent (54 million) of the population, according to the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, a massive 45-question poll conducted last summer of more than 35,000 American adults...
And further proof is found here...
Former Catholics are about evenly divided between those who have become Protestant and those who are now unaffiliated with any religion, with fewer now adhering to other faiths. "...Those who have left Catholicism outnumber those who have joined the Catholic Church by nearly a four-to-one margin. Overall, one-in-ten American adults (10.1%) have left the Catholic Church after having been raised Catholic, while only 2.6% of adults have become Catholic after having been raised something other than Catholic.
Once again, a false bishop of Rome spouts error. No doubt part of the job description.
And the MORMON’s win again...
Whatever you say Doctor. (BTW, I’m one too.) Compare the faithlessness of the former Lutherans of East Germany with the faith-filled Catholics of Poland. The Lutherans of Germany lost their faith in the face of trials, the opposite happened in Poland. I stand with my German Pope and his statements. Catholicism flourished under the persecutions of the Nazis and then the communists, protestantism failed under 1/2 of the pressure.
By their fruits you shall know them.
Catholicism has experienced “the greatest net loss” of any major religious group. Those who have left Catholicism outnumber those who have joined the church by an almost four-to-one margin. Ex-Catholics, if one considered them a denomination, would be the second-largest in the country behind Catholics, who list 68.1 million members. “The ‘had it’ Catholics,” National Catholic Reporter ,Oct. 11, 2001, based on reports from the 2008 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey and the National Council of Churches’ 2010 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. http://ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/had-it-catholics
But mainline Prots are not dong well either.