Catholicism is more morally admirable than Protestantism

Nay, says I. Catholicism is not more morally admirable than Protestantism. First, let us define some things. "PROTESTANTISM" Obviously, Protestantism is not one single religion. However, most protestant religions differ form Catholicism in the same ways. That's it for definitions. Time for some contentions. CONTENTION ONE: Faith leading to obedience to a worldly power One of the main differences between Catholicism and other brands of Christianity is that the Catholics have a Pope. They believe this Pope speaks with divine authority. In this sense, Catholicism turns people into drones willing to follow a master. Remember the Crusades? They happened in large part because people thought the Pope was speaking divine truth. . . when he was sometimes just a corrupt man with corrupt goals. By teaching people that the Pope has divine authority, Catholicism has given a man the right to say ridiculous things and have masses of people follow him without question. Recently he claimed that condoms were one of the main reasons AIDS is so widespread in Africa. He probably didn't even have corrupt motives here, he was just wrong. Under normal circumstances, people would look at that statement and say "That doesn't make any sense at all." While many people still did that, many people took what he said as truth simply because he said it. Humans should not be viewed as having divine authority. Such a doctrine is morally negative. CONTENTION TWO: Protestantism was borne of some moral problems with Catholicism Catholicism was built largely on the Bible and other supposedly holy texts, where Protestantism was largely built on the qualms people had with Catholicism. EX: In the Bible, Jesus states that bread and wine are transformed into his flesh and blood in the eucharist. Catholicism takes this literally, but few other forms of Christianity do. Why? Because those other forms of Christianity found the idea of eating your savior's body to be morally repulsive. They're right. Claiming that the bread and wine really turn into flesh and blood of Jesus is not only a lie that doesn't have to be propagated, but it's also morally unsavory. The only form of morality that where eating Jesus' flesh and blood is admirable is a morality based specifically on the Catholic religion. There are no doubt many other moral qualms the protestants had when they split off from Catholicism. CONTENTION THREE: Catholicism is more ritualistic Catholicism has always kept their traditions running strong. Unfortunately, many of these traditions are very ritualistic. Rituals confuse people and stop people from thinking critically about issues - certainly not morally admirable. Closely related to the ritualistic nature of Catholicism is the "saints." In Catholicism, saints are very important - in fact, most devout Catholics pray to certain saints. Prayer is very important in Catholicism, with catholics spending much more time praying and to all sorts of different folks. This distracts Catholics from issues that are more important - and that is not morally admirable. I would like to hear my opponent's theory on why Catholicism is morally superior to Protestantism.