Kinda.
Some of the catholic campaigns against them within Europe were a disaster, they were a plague upon catholic countries for centuries and North Africa was still never recovered, and their pirates would enslave millions of euro catholics for half a millenia(which dutch and anglos also interpreted as evidence of God's wrath upon the papist idolaters), until America, of all countries, finished them off.
This type of stuff is why i hate applying narratives into history.
It always distorts and selectively picks the facts, to make some stupid hero narrative:
etc.
I'm sure you can find plenty of holes in all these stories, and that's the point.
