A powerful thread about our current situation from Archbishop Virgano
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Eh, I wouldn't put words and ideas into Protestants' mouths like you just did in the last paragraph. Doing that only makes me lose respect for the Catholic church (that I currently hold due to the intellectual writings of a certain Catholic sci-fi author named John C. Wright).
I don't doubt that there are infiltrators into Protestant churches too, but, simply put, larger organizations are easier to infiltrate (and have more value for doing so, mundanely speaking) and are far more well-known and useful as targets either before or after the fact.
I don't represent the Catholic Church, so whatever I say shouldn't have a real effect on whatever respect you have for it. I'm just repeating exactly what I've heard from other Protestants in regards to how they view the Eucharist and such. It's no disrespect to them, it's only what I've heard them say.
But if you put it like that, I'm only doing the same thing as you are. I'm ascribing what you say to the perspective of all Catholics, the same way as you are ascribing what you heard from a few Protestants to every Protestant church (which is hardly monolithic anyway, as I'm sure you already know).
That's why I'm saying it's not a good idea to paint in such broad strokes. I honestly see no reason for Catholic animosity against non-Catholic Christians, and vice versa. I may not agree with the practices of the Catholic Church's hierarchy and the historical incidents of persecuting its own (yes, even before the modern era), but I am not so blind as to be unable to see the good it has done, and the fact that doctrine-wise there's barely any substantial conflict. At the end of the day, Catholics and 'Protestants' worship the same God, and I wish more people would see it that way.