Well the philosophy of catholics is quite particular, they are wary of Man essentially To them, if Man isn't strictly supervised, he'll essentially become a degenerate, and they aren't necessarily wrong... If you give too much freedom to a human he might slip and end up raveling in sin and luxury, look around you Catholics believe there's only one way to access heaven/redemption and it's theirs, protestants believe all roads to get there are good as long as you get there; catholicism is centralized and protestantism isn't, basically That's really 2 different approaches, with their pros and cons, and jesus would subscribe to none I think, because of what it has become in practice. Protestants and their mega churches, cathos with their vatican, and all that has become very politicized, and a business Some cahtolics are called "vacationists", those who reject vatican 2 and consider the popes as illegitimate ever since Mel gibson is one of them