Since I named the Protestants also, why did you not defend the Protestants also? The point was made in general, including both the Catholics and Protestants...on purpose, to make the point that it was in fact not an "anti-Catholic" issue.
But you are not being honest.
If you want to claim that the position of the Catholic church has never assumed a position of intermediary between people and Jesus, history will attest to the truth. But even if it were possible for you to produce evidence in support of such a claim, you could not do the same and make the same claim that the Catholic church has not assumed an intermediary position between people and the church. Either way presents a problem that many are guilty of. Which is not "anti-Catholic", it is anti-flesh in leadership.
You see, it is not "the church" (regardless of one affiliation or another) that leads us into all truth...but the Holy Spirit, in whom there is no factions big or small, no hierarchy, no issue of priestly robes, or funny hats, etc..