As in the Titanic encountered a "bit of a problem" out in the North Atlantic.
It’s been suggested that Wife #4 finally did turn him on to Christian faith, though under less than ideal circumstances. (Standards for what’s an allowable divorce and remarriage are not the same in the evangelical and Roman Catholic worlds. Evangelicals are more closely tied to literal biblical language.) But Jerusalem was not rebuilt in a day, so to speak. I do not believe his problem is spiritually fatal, but it certainly interferes with his usefulness.