When did the Gates of Hell prevail against the Roman Catholic Church? Certainly sometime before the Roman church openly and officially declared so with the adoption of Paragraph 460 to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Official church doctrine teaches that man is equal to or becoming God. | When did the Gates of Hell prevail against the Roman Catholic Church? Certainly sometime before the Roman church openly and officially declared so with the adoption of Paragraph 460 to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Official church doctrine teaches that man is equal to or becoming God. |