The problem is that the Catholic Church adopted the mainline Protestant model (ricebowl Christianity, with varying degrees of Marxism) combined with a bit of Pentecostalist Protestantism. This meant that these “Christians” would hang out until they got disenchanted with their latest pastor and then were approached by Muslims.
I read several years ago (sorry, I don’t remember where) that the largest Muslim convert group in Latin America is former Evangelical Christians. They are very personally oriented, much more so than Catholics, and if they suddenly decide they don’t like that person or if there is a change in leadership, they abandon the whole project.
And the Muslims are waiting.
I'm surprised to hear that. There's a distaste for Islam verging on hatred among evangelicals. Moving to Islam would be a real flip-flop. Unlike Catholics, evangelical Christians don't want to co-exist with Islam - they want to replace it.
That’s hot, blame non-Catholics for problems within the Catholic church.
The problem with the Catholic church is that it has lost credibility due in-part to its prolific pedophile problem and unwillingness to acknowledge or do anything about it.
Many of the same Cardinals who protected pedophiles will be electing the next pope.