IIRC, you also are a Catholic. :-)
I tend to agree with your point that Protestantism, which by history was born an angry, bitter, and abusive rebellion, would tend to reproduce itself. Rebels breed rebellion. It is not a good model for holiness or peace.
Hold this thought...
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
I am not a Catholic.
I am a born again follower of Jesus.
My spiritual identity is being in Christ, not a member of any religious organization or denomination. Those do not define who I am.
The Catholic church did a pretty good job with the inquisition.