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ANSWER: Because most rely on clergymen to dissect scripture for them instead of learning it for themselves. Here is what they are missing out on in the comparisons of Catholic Theology and the Holy Bible:1. Where is salvation found?The Catholic Church teaches:“Also well known is the Catholic teaching that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church.”—Pope Pius IX, Encyclical, On Promotion of False Doctrines August 10, 1863.The Bible teaches:Acts 4:10–12“10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”2. Who is the mediator between God and man?The Catholic Church teaches:“Prophetess Of These Last Times, The Immaculate Conception, Mother Of The Church, Mary As The New Eve, Queen Of Heaven and Earth/Queen of Peace, The Assumption, Queen of the Holy Rosary, Queen and Mother of Families, Mary as CO-REDEMPTRIX, MEDIATRIX, ADVOCATE, Our Lady of all Nations, Ark of the New Covenant, Mother of the Second Advent.”—Ten Flynn, Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace (MaxKol Communications, 1992)."The Son of God became man for our salvation but ONLY IN MARY and THROUGH MARY."—Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, Jesuit Resource - Mother Mary Quotes“The sinner that ventures directly to Christ may come with dread and apprehension of his wrath: but let him only employ the mediation of the Virgin with her Son and she has only to show that Son the breasts that gave him suck and his wrath will immediately be appeased."—The Catholic Laymann, July, 1856 174“Many things…are asked from God, and are not granted; they are asked from MARY, and are obtained [130]…At the command of Mary all obey, even God [146] St.Bernardine fears not to utter this sentence; meaning indeed, to say that God grants the prayers of Mary as if they were commands…Since the Mother, then, should have the same power as the Son, rightly has Jesus, who is omnipotent, made Mary also omnipotent.”—St. Alphonsus De’ Liguori, “The Glories of Mary” (1852), p. 130, 146//Above: This is a Catholic painting depicting Jesus placing the crown of thorns on Mary's head. Notice the holes on her hands which are the wounds that Jesus had received on the cross. This is an example of the Catholic Church attempting to replace Jesus with Mary in the role of the divine savior of fall man. Mary is said to redeem sinners through her obedience, instead of Eve, thus replacing Jesus. This is falsehood at the highest level. The real Catholic Trinity is Father (Lord of Heaven), Mother, (Queen of Heaven), & Child (Messiah) instead of the true Trinity which is Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Catholicism adheres to the old mother-God cult of ancient pagan mystery religions which was merely baptized into the church. (see: The Mother-Son Sun Worship System)2. Who is the mediator between God and man? (continued from above)The Bible teaches:Timothy 2:5“For there is one God and ONE MEDIATOR between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,”3. Who should we pray to resist the Devil?The Catholic Church teaches:"If you invoke the blessed Virgin [Mary] when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you."—Saint John Vianney, Jesuit Resource - Mother Mary QuotesThe Bible teaches:James 4:7“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”4. Who do we call father?The Catholic Church teaches:“Have no fear when people call me the ‘Vicar of Christ,’ [Vicarius Filii Dei] when they say to me ‘Holy Father,’ or ‘Your Holiness,’ or use titles similar to these, which seem even inimical to the Gospel.”—Pope John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope (New York: Alfred A. Knoff. 1995): 6.The Bible teaches:Matthew 23:9“And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.”5. Should we venerate statues and images?The Catholic Church admits:“The use of temples, and these dedicated to PARTICULAR SAINTS, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, IMAGES at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison are all of PAGAN ORIGIN, and SANCTIFIED BY THEIR ADOPTION INTO THE CHURCH.”—Cardinal John Henry Newman, “An Essay on The Development of the Christian Doctrine”, p.373.“It has often been charged… that CATHOLICISM IS OVERLAID WITH MANY PAGAN INCRUSTATIONS. Catholicism is ready to accept that accusation and even to make it her boast… THE GREAT GOD PAN IS NOT REALLY DEAD, HE IS BAPTIZED”—”The Story of Catholicism” p 37.“It is interesting to note how often our Church has availed herself of practices which were in common use among pagans… Thus it is true, in a certain sense, that some Catholic rites and ceremonies are a REPRODUCTION OF THOSE PAGAN CREEDS…”—John F. Sullivan, ”The Externals of the Catholic Church, Her Government, Ceremonies, Festivals, Sacramentals and Devotions”, published by P.J. Kennedy, NY, 1942), p156.In fact, the Catholic church erased the 2nd commandment and divided the 10th commandment in half to keep the number.The Bible teaches:Exodus 4:5, Exodus 20:4-5, Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 4:16,Deuteronomy 16:22, 1 Thessalonians 1:9, Deuteronomy 27:15,6. Who is sinless?The Catholic Church teaches:The Catholic Church teaches that Mary is sinless,“The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.”—Pope Pius IX (1854), from the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”, Article IIIThe Bible teaches:Only Jesus is sinless.Romans 3:10–12“10 As it is written: ‘There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.’”Hebrews 4:14-16“14 Seeing then that we have a great HIGH PRIEST, that is passed into the HEAVENS, JESUS THE SON OF GOD, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an HIGH PRIEST which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet WITHOUT SIN. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”7. Are priests a special class of people?The Catholic Church teaches:The Catholic church teaches that priests and other Catholic clergymen are of a special class distinguished from the common man and are elevated to being called, “father” and a mediator for confessions.“In order to attach to Christianity great attraction in the eyes of the nobility, the priests adopted the outer garments and adornments which were used in pagan cults.”—Eusebius, ”Life of Constantine”, cited in Altai-Nimalaya, p.94“The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. When you see a priest, think of our Lord Jesus Christ.”—St. John Vianney, patron saint of parish priests → this is blasphemy“The end for which God has instituted the priesthood has been to appoint on earth public persons to watch over the honor of his divine majesty, and to procure the salvation of souls.”—St. Alphonsus Liguori → assumes that the priesthood or the church has power over the state (church-state union).St. Alphonsus Liguori, one of the 36 “doctors of the [Catholic] Church”, writes:“The priest has the power of the keys, or the power of delivering sinners from Hell, of making them worthy of Paradise, and of changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God. And God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His priests, and either not to pardon or to pardon [27]....Were the Redeemer to descend into a church, and sit in a confessional to administer the sacrament of penance, and a priest to sit in another confessional, Jesus would say over each penitent, "Ego te absolve," the priest would likewise say over each of his penitents, "Ego te absolve," and the penitents of each would be equally absolved [28]...THUS THE PRIEST MAY, in a certain manner, BE CALLED the creator of his Creator, since by saying the words of consecration, he creates, as it were, Jesus in the sacrament, by giving him a sacramental existence, and produces him as a victim to be offered to the eternal Father...Let the priest, says St. Laurence Justinian, ‘approach the altar as another Christ.’ [32]”.—Saint Alphonsus Liguori, “The Dignities and Duties of the Priest” (1889), Volume 12, section “Grandeur of the Priestly Power”, p. 27, 28, 32.The Bible teaches:All of mankind is a holy priesthood.Ephesians 11 Peter 28. Who has eternal life?The Catholic Church teaches:Not everyone has eternal life.The Bible teaches:1 John 5:13“These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.”John 3:16“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”9. Which Day is the sabbath-day of the Lord?The Catholic Church says:“Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day - Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes. Did Christ change the day’? I answer no!”—James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Md., “Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons.” (1877-1921), in a signed letter."The Sabbath was Saturday, not Sunday. The Church altered the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of Sunday. Protestants must be rather puzzled by the keeping of Sunday when God distinctly said, 'Keep holy the Sabbath Day.' The word Sunday does not come anywhere in the Bible, so, without knowing it they are obeying the authority of the Catholic Church."—Canon Cafferata, The Catechism Explained, p. 89."If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday, they are following a law of the Catholic Church."—Albert Smith, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal in a letter, February 10, 1920.READ MORE: Multi-denominational and Historical Statements About the SabbathThe Bible teaches:Exodus 20:8–10“8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.”Hebrews 4:4, 9, 10“For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works” “There remains therefore a rest [“keeping of a sabbath”] for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His”.Matthew 28:1“In the END OF THE SABBATH [Saturday], as it began to DAWN TOWARD THE FIRST DAY [Sunday] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.”Matthew 15:3,16“[3] He [Jesus] answered and said to them, ‘Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?’…[16] Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.”Acts 5:29“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”Matthew 15:9“And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”Mark 7:7“And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”10. Can we pray in constant repetition?The Catholic Church speaks:In recent history, Popes such as Pius XI, John Paul I, and John Paul II, and others, have commended and even commanded the use of the rosary in the prayer which is repetitive prayers that are reminiscent of Eastern meditation practiced in Hinduism and Buddhism “to find god from within” which is essentially pantheism via the Catholic rosary prayers."Buddhists and Hindus practice the repetition of a word or phrase in their attempts to empty their minds and reach higher states of consciousness that reveal their own divinity (emphasis in original).”—Roger Oakland, Faith Undone (Silverton, OR: Lighthouse Trails Publishing, 2007): 113-114.Remember, many customs and rituals of the Catholic Church are of Pagan origin as the Catholic Cardinal John Newman explicitly state:“The use of temples, and these dedicated to PARTICULAR SAINTS, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, IMAGES at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison are all of PAGAN ORIGIN, and SANCTIFIED BY THEIR ADOPTION INTO THE CHURCH.”—Cardinal John Henry Newman, “An Essay on The Development of the Christian Doctrine”, p.373.The Bible teaches:Matthew 6:7“And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.”11. Who can forgive us of our sins?The Catholic Church teaches:“If anyone denies that for the full and perfect remission of sins three acts are required on the part of the penitent...namely, contrition, confession and satisfaction, which are called the three parts of penance...let him be anathema. If anyone denies that sacramental confession was instituted by divine law or is necessary for salvation; or says that the manner of CONFESSING SECRETLY TO A PRIEST ALONE, which the Catholic Church always observed from the beginning and still observes, is at variance with the institution and command of Christ and is a human contrivance, let him be anathema.”—Council of Trent, Canon #4The Bible teaches:Isaiah 43Luke 5:24“’But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins’—He said to the man who was paralyzed, ‘I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.’”12. Did Jesus die once and for all?The Catholic Church teaches:Jesus is to die every time during the mass where the bread and wine are “transubstantiated” into the actual blood and body of Christ. With this belief, the priest is symbolically also “creating” God. Transubstantiation basically crucifies Christ continually for every mass. Read below and you will know that Transubstantiation is blasphemy:“Is the sacrifice of Christ on the Criss still offered? THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS STILL OFFERED IN EVERY MASS.”—W. Faerber, Catechism for the Catholic Parochial Schools of the United States, 16th ed., p. 72.“The priest has the power of the keys, or the power of delivering sinners from Hell, of making them worthy of Paradise, and of changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God. And God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His priests, and either not to pardon or to pardon, according as they refuse or give absolution [27]…The sentence of the priest precedes (goes first), and God subscribes (obeys) to it [27]...Were the Redeemer to descend into a church, and sit in a confessional to administer the sacrament of penance, and a priest to sit in another confessional, Jesus would say over each penitent, "Ego te absolve," the priest would likewise say over each of his penitents, "Ego te absolve," and the penitents of each would be equally absolved [28]...THUS THE PRIEST MAY, in a certain manner, BE CALLED the creator of his Creator, since by saying the words of consecration, he creates, as it were, Jesus in the sacrament, by giving him a sacramental existence, and produces him as a victim to be offered to the eternal Father...Let the priest, says St. Laurence Justinian, ‘approach the altar as another Christ’ [32].”—Saint Alphonsus Liguori, “The Dignities and Duties of the Priest” (1889), Volume 12, section “Grandeur of the Priestly Power”, p. 27, 28, 32.“But since Christ our Redeemer declared that to be truly His own body which He offers under the form of bread, it has, therefore, always been a firm belief in the Church of God, and this holy council now declares it anew, that by the consecration of the blood and wine a change is brought about of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of His blood. This change the Catholic Church properly and appropriately calls transubstantiation.”—Reverend H. J. Schroeder (trans.), "Transubstantiation, The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent” (Rockford, Illinois: TAN Books, 1978): 75.The Bible teaches:Hebrews 7:27“who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.”Hebrews 10:10“By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”13. How do we deal with demons?The Catholic Church teaches:Tobias 6:4-8 (Apocrypha)“Open the fish, and take the heart and liver and the gall...if a devil or an evil spirit trouble any, we must make a smoke thereof before the man or the woman, and the party shall no more be vexed. As for the gall, it is good to anoint a man that hath witness in his eyes, and he shall be healed”.The Bible teaches:Mark 16:17“And signs will follow to those believing these things: in My name they will cast out demons.”Acts 16:18“But being distressed, and turning to the demonic spirit, Paul said, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her! And it came out in that hour”.14. How can we be saved?The Catholic Church teaches:Tobias 12:9 (Apocrypha)“For alms doth deliver from death, and shall purge away all sin”.The Bible teaches:1 Peter 1:18-19“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers”15. Should we pray for the dead for the cleansing of sin?The Catholic Church teaches:2 Maccabees 12:43-46 (Apocrypha)“For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should have risen again, it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the dead…Whereupon he made reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin.”The Bible teaches:1 John 1:7“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”16. What should Christians live by?The Catholic Church teaches:“Now if God commands me under pain of damnation to believe what He has taught, He is bound to give me the means to know what He has taught. What is this means? ‘The Bible,’ say the Protestants. But we Catholics say, ‘No, not the Bible, but the Church of God.’”—"An Open Letter To Non-Catholics," Our Catholic Faith Website.“The fact that Scripture and Tradition belong together accounts for two rules that direct the way the Church approaches God’s revelation. The first of these rules is stated very simply by Vatican II in these words: It follows from what has been said that the Church does not draw its knowledge of all that God has revealed from holy Scripture alone. That is why both (Tradition and Scripture) must be accepted and respected with equal affection and honour. Secondly, the unbreakable bond between Scripture and Tradition accounts for the fact that for Catholics, Tradition is the context within which the Scriptures are interpreted, just as Tradition itself has to be understood and lived with reference to Scripture.”—Fr. Bonaventure Hinwood, More Answers to Your Questions (Human & Rousseau, 1983)."Like two sacred rivers flowing from paradise, the Bible and divine Tradition contain the Word of God, the precious gems of revealed truth. Though these two divine streams are in themselves, on account of their divine origin, of equal sacredness, and are both full of revealed truths, still, of the two, Tradition [the sayings of popes and councils] is to us more clear and safe."—Di Bruno, Catholic Belief, p. 33.“Tradition, NOT Scripture, is the rock on which the [Catholic] church of Jesus Christ is built.”—Adrien Nampon (a Jesuit Priest), from the “Catholic Doctrine as Defined by the Council of Trent”, p.157The Bible teaches:Deuteronomy 8:3“So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.”Matthew 4:4“But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”John 5:46-47“For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?”Matthew 15:3,16“[3] He [Jesus] answered and said to them, ‘Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?’…[16] Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.”Acts 5:29“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”Matthew 15:9“And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”Mark 7:7“And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”

INTRODUCTION: In order to have a fair understanding of this subject, we first have to define ‘heresy’ for both the Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church and the general assembly of Protestants. This question is essentially asking “what are the differences between Catholic and Protestant theology?”.PART I. CATHOLICISMBefore I move on, you must understand that there is only one Catholic Church. All sincere Roman Catholics adhere to the jurisdiction of the Holy See of the Papacy. In order to speak on this subject, I will quote to you only from credible Catholic sources in order to point out the differences in their theology.A. Catholicism Defines HeresyBasic Definitions:According to Pope John Paul II (this is actually the Catholic canonical definition of “heresy”),"Whoever denies or places in doubt any truth that must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or repudiates the Christian faith as a whole, and does not come to his senses after having been LEGITIMATELY WARNED, is to be punished as a HERETIC...whoever obstinately rejects a teaching that the [1] Roman Pontiff or the [2] College of Bishops, exercising the authentic Magisterium, have set forth to be held definitively, or who affirms what they have condemned as erroneous, and does not retract after having been LEGITIMATELY WARNED, is to be punished with an appropriate penalty."—Pope John Paul II, in his apostolic letter Ad Tuendam Fidem (May 18, 1998)"A person who violates the sanctity of Sunday is to be punished as a heretic."—Pope John Paul II (quoted from Detroit News, July 7, 1998, pA1)Let's break Pope John Pauls II’s definitions down. A ‘heretic’ is anyone who:[1] ‘denies’ ‘any truth’ that must be believed with the Catholic faith.[2] ‘places in doubt’ in ‘any truth’ that must be believed with the Catholic faith[3] ‘does not come to his senses’ after having been legitimately warned by Catholic agencies[4] ‘repudiates the Christian faith as a whole’ (probably referring to atheists and non-Christian theists)[5] ‘obstinately rejects a teaching’ of the Roman Pontiff[6] ‘obstinately rejects a teaching’ of the College of Bishops[7] ‘affirms what [Catholic teachings] they have condemned as erroneous’[8] ‘does not retract’ what [Catholic teachings] they have condemned as erroneous’[9] ‘violates the sanctity of Sunday’ (This is because Sunday-observance is the “ecclesiastical mark of authority of the Papacy”. Thus, to denounce the observance of Sunday-veneration is to denounce the authority of the Bishop of Rome).Regarding Sunday-Veneration:“Sunday is our MARK of authority… the church is ABOVE the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance [to Sunday] is proof of that fact”.—“Catholic Record of London” (Ontario September 1, 1923)"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change [of the Sabbath to Sunday] was her act... AND THE ACT IS A MARK of her ecclesiastical power."—From the office of Cardinal Gibbons, through Chancellor H. F. Thomas, November 11, 1895According to a major Catholic Jesuit publication,"Protestants....accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change... But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that… in observing the Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope."—“Our Sunday Visitor”, February 5, 1950."Protestantism, In discarding the authority of the (Roman Catholic) Church, has no good reasons for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath."—John Gilmary Shea, “American Catholic Quarterly Review” (January 1883)"Sunday is a Catholic Institution, and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles. . . .From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first."—The Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia (August 1900)For a brief history of how Sunday-sabbath came into the Church, read Constantine’s Christianity.How does the Church respond to ‘heresy’:“There is no graver offense than heresy... and therefore it must be rooted out with fire and sword.”—Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 14 (1911): 767-768“A heretic merits the pains of fire....By the Gospel, the canons, civil law, and custom, heretics must be burned.”—“The American Textbook of Popery”, p 164 (quoting from the “Directory for the Inquisitors”).“Heretics may be not only excommunicated but also justly put to death.”—”Catholic Encyclopedia”, Vol. XIV, p. 768See also: How did the Catholic Church respond to the Protestant Reformation?B. Have the Doctrines of the Catholic Church changed thus far?"What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful."—Pope Benedict XVI, “Summorum Pontificum” (July 7, 2007)“All dogmatic decrees of the pope, made with or without this general council, are infallible… Once made, no pope or council can reverse them…This is the Catholic principle, that the church cannot err in faith.”—The Catholic World, June 1871, pp. 422-423.Even the Papacy itself says that no doctrines were changed during Vatican II Council—the latest Catholic council (from the official Vatican website):“FIRST QUESTION: Did the Second Vatican Council change the Catholic doctrine on the Church?RESPONSE: The Second Vatican Council neither changed nor intended to change this doctrine, rather it developed, deepened and more fully explained it. This was exactly what John XXIII said at the beginning of the Council. Paul VI affirmed it and commented in the act of promulgating the Constitution Lumen gentium: ‘There is no better comment to make than to say that this promulgation really changes nothing of the traditional doctrine. What Christ willed, we also will. What was, still is. What the Church has taught down through the centuries, we also teach. In simple terms that which was assumed, is now explicit; that which was uncertain, is now clarified; that which was meditated upon, discussed and sometimes argued over, is now put together in one clear formulation (emphasis added).’”—Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church, Vatican.va.It is interesting to note that the writers of this excerpt, the “Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith”, the oldest among the nine congregations of the Roman Curia, is formerly known as the “Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition”.PART II. PROTESTANTISMBefore I move on, you must understand that Protestanism is a very wide variety of groups that do not adhere to the jurisdiction of the Holy See of the Papacy. In order to speak on this subject, I will generalize Protestantism to its fundamentals because even within Protestantism, there are true “heresies” that contrast their own understanding of Scripture due to certain, often unknown to them, [1] misconceptions and [2] deliberate misguidance.A. Protestantism has historically and generally defined heresy as anything that does not adhere to the Five-Solas of the Reformation which are as follows: [1] Sola scriptura ("by Scripture alone"), [2] Sola Gratia ("by grace alone"), [3] Sola Fide ("by faith alone"), [4] Solus Christus ("Christ alone" or "through Christ alone"), [5] Soli Deo Gloria ("glory to God alone").The Five Solas VS Catholic Theology1. Sola ScripturaProtestants believe that Scripture is the foundation of the Church.Catholics believe that Tradition is the foundation of the Church and is more reliable than the Holy Scripture.According to the Jesuit, Adrien Nampon,“Tradition, NOT Scripture, is the rock on which the [Catholic] church of Jesus Christ is built.”—Adrien Nampon, from the “Catholic Doctrine as Defined by the Council of Trent”, p.1572. Sola GratiaProtestants generally believe that the sacrifice of grace, given to humanity at the death of Jesus Christ, is the only means to complete the Justification part of the process of salvation. To other Bible Protestants, it is more clear that “good works” is a fruit or a product of a genuine acceptance of grace, which is sustained by faith.Catholics believe that faith and works are part of the Justification part of the process of salvation.3. Sola FideProtestants believe that faith sustains the gift of grace through obedience. Bible Protestants believe that if you accepted the grace of Christ to take away the penalty for original sin, which is the transgression of the Law, then one should sustain that grace through works of obedience to the Law they once transgressed.Catholics believe that faith and works are a product of grace.Note: Catholics and Bible Protestants, they both believe in the importance of Grace, Faith, and works. Their only contention is, ‘WHERE in the process of Salvation does each one belong to?”, by which this “process” is chronologically organized: [1] Justification, [2] Sanctification, [3] Glorification.In other words, Bible Protestants will never say that works is part of justification while the Catholics believe that works is part of the first phase, which is Justification.4. Solus ChristusProtestants believe that salvation is by faith in Christ alone.Catholics believe that salvation is by faith in Christ, Mary (“co-redemptrix”), and the Church.5. Soli Deo GloriaProtestants believe that glory is to God alone.Catholics believe that glory is to God and the Pope, the “vicar of Christ” on Earth.B. Other distinguishable doctrines:Protestants accuse the Papacy of ‘blasphemy’ defined as “placing oneself in the place of God almighty”.Here are a few reasons:"The Pope is of so great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine law. The pope can modify divine law since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts a vicegerent of God upon earth."—Lucius Ferraris, “Prompta bibliotheca”, Vol. VI, art. “Papa II.”, p.29“We [the popes] hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty,”—Pope Leo XIII, “Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae: The Reunion of Christendom”, dated June 20, 1894, trans. In The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII, para. 5, p. 304."The Pope is NOT only the representative [Vicar] of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under [the] veil of flesh."—”The Catholic National”, July 1895."The leader of the Catholic church is defined by the faith as the Vicar of Jesus Christ (and is accepted as such by believers). The Pope is considered the man on earth who ‘TAKES THE PLACE’ of the Second Person of the omnipotent God of the Trinity."—Pope John Paul II, “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, p. 3, 199Protestantism understands blasphemy in the context of 2 Thessalonians 2:4, John 10:33, Mark 14:62–64, Mark 2:7, Luke 5:21, Matthew 26:64-65.Creationism vs Theistic EvolutionIn a Time Article, Pope John Paul II is quoted to have said,“new knowledge leads us to recognize that the theory of evolution is more than a hypothesis.”—Burke, Collins, and Kamlani, “Vatican thinking Evolves,” Time (November 6, 1996).The author of the article wrote, “Vatican Thinking Evolves: The Pope gives his blessing to natural selection though man’s soul remains beyond science’s reach.”“The Pope gives his blessing to natural selection – though man’s soul remains beyond science’s reach.”—”Vatican Thinking Evolves”, TIME magazine, Monday 04 November 1996, James Collins 174“The Catholic Church has officially debunked a literal interpretation of the Creation according to Genesis as ‘Utter nonsense’ “—Nic Van Oudtshoorn, ”Genesis is ‘nonsense’”, Sunday Times, December 6, 1987In 1999, Jesuit Guy Consolmagno made an even more astounding comment during an interview with Elm Street magazine, stating that creationism is “a 19th-century heresy. The ancient Church fathers knew better than to interpret the Bible that way” (Alison Rose, “Science of Heaven,” Elm Street (December 1999): 30).In fact, the first person to propose the ‘Big Bang theory’ on cosmic origins was a Belgian priest named, Georges Lemaître.According to Pope Francis I,“[God] created beings and allowed them to develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one, so that they were able to develop and to arrive at their fullness of being. He gave autonomy to the beings of the universe at the same time at which he assured them of his continuous presence, giving being to every reality. And so creation continued for centuries and centuries, millennia and millennia, until it became what we know today, precisely because God is not a demiurge or a magician, but the creator who gives being to all things. ...The Big Bang, which nowadays is posited as the origin of the world, does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it. The evolution of nature does not contrast with the notion of creation, as evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.”—"Francis inaugurates bust of Benedict, emphasizes unity of faith, science". cna. 27 October 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.To make this brief, The Catholic Church officially teaches what is known as “Theistic Evolution”.Examples of Merging Catholicism with Evolution:Introduction to Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe Universal ChristReligions Based on EvolutionC. THEOLOGICAL COMPARE AND CONTRAST1. Where is salvation found?The Catholic Church teaches:“Also well known is the Catholic teaching that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church.”—Pope Pius IX, Encyclical, On Promotion of False Doctrines August 10, 1863.The Bible teaches:Acts 4:10–12“10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”2. Who is the mediator between God and man?The Catholic Church teaches:“Prophetess Of These Last Times, The Immaculate Conception, Mother Of The Church, Mary As The New Eve, Queen Of Heaven and Earth/Queen of Peace, The Assumption, Queen of the Holy Rosary, Queen and Mother of Families, Mary as CO-REDEMPTRIX, MEDIATRIX, ADVOCATE, Our Lady of all Nations, Ark of the New Covenant, Mother of the Second Advent.”—Ten Flynn, Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace (MaxKol Communications, 1992)."The Son of God became man for our salvation but ONLY IN MARY and THROUGH MARY."—Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, Jesuit Resource - Mother Mary Quotes“The sinner that ventures directly to Christ may come with dread and apprehension of his wrath: but let him only employ the mediation of the Virgin with her Son and she has only to show that Son the breasts that gave him suck and his wrath will immediately be appeased."—The Catholic Laymann, July, 1856 174“Many things…are asked from God, and are not granted; they are asked from MARY, and are obtained [130]…At the command of Mary all obey, even God [146] St.Bernardine fears not to utter this sentence; meaning indeed, to say that God grants the prayers of Mary as if they were commands…Since the Mother, then, should have the same power as the Son, rightly has Jesus, who is omnipotent, made Mary also omnipotent.”—St. Alphonsus De’ Liguori, “The Glories of Mary” (1852), p. 130, 146//Above: This is a Catholic painting depicting Jesus placing the crown of thorns on Mary's head. Notice the holes on her hands which are the wounds that Jesus had received on the cross. This is an example of the Catholic Church attempting to replace Jesus with Mary in the role of the divine savior of fall man. Mary is said to redeem sinners through her obedience, instead of Eve, thus replacing Jesus. This is falsehood at the highest level. The real Catholic Trinity is Father (Lord of Heaven), Mother, (Queen of Heaven), & Child (Messiah) instead of the true Trinity which is Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Catholicism adheres to the old mother-God cult of ancient pagan mystery religions which was merely baptized into the church. (see: The Mother-Son Sun Worship System)2. Who is the mediator between God and man? (continued from above)The Bible teaches:Timothy 2:5“For there is one God and ONE MEDIATOR between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,”3. Who should we pray to resist the Devil?The Catholic Church teaches:"If you invoke the blessed Virgin [Mary] when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you."—Saint John Vianney, Jesuit Resource - Mother Mary QuotesThe Bible teaches:James 4:7“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”4. Who do we call father?The Catholic Church teaches:“Have no fear when people call me the ‘Vicar of Christ,’ [Vicarius Filii Dei] when they say to me ‘Holy Father,’ or ‘Your Holiness,’ or use titles similar to these, which seem even inimical to the Gospel.”—Pope John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope (New York: Alfred A. Knoff. 1995): 6.The Bible teaches:Matthew 23:9“And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.”5. Should we venerate statues and images?The Catholic Church admits:“The use of temples, and these dedicated to PARTICULAR SAINTS, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, IMAGES at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison are all of PAGAN ORIGIN, and SANCTIFIED BY THEIR ADOPTION INTO THE CHURCH.”—Cardinal John Henry Newman, “An Essay on The Development of the Christian Doctrine”, p.373.“It has often been charged… that CATHOLICISM IS OVERLAID WITH MANY PAGAN INCRUSTATIONS. Catholicism is ready to accept that accusation and even to make it her boast… THE GREAT GOD PAN IS NOT REALLY DEAD, HE IS BAPTIZED”—”The Story of Catholicism” p 37.“It is interesting to note how often our Church has availed herself of practices which were in common use among pagans… Thus it is true, in a certain sense, that some Catholic rites and ceremonies are a REPRODUCTION OF THOSE PAGAN CREEDS…”—John F. Sullivan, ”The Externals of the Catholic Church, Her Government, Ceremonies, Festivals, Sacramentals and Devotions”, published by P.J. Kennedy, NY, 1942), p156.In fact, the Catholic church erased the 2nd commandment and divided the 10th commandment in half to keep the number.The Bible teaches:Exodus 4:5, Exodus 20:4-5, Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 4:16,Deuteronomy 16:22, 1 Thessalonians 1:9, Deuteronomy 27:15,6. Who is sinless?The Catholic Church teaches:The Catholic Church teaches that Mary is sinless,“The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.”—Pope Pius IX (1854), from the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”, Article IIIThe Bible teaches:Only Jesus is sinless.Romans 3:10–12“10 As it is written: ‘There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.’”Hebrews 4:14-16“14 Seeing then that we have a great HIGH PRIEST, that is passed into the HEAVENS, JESUS THE SON OF GOD, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an HIGH PRIEST which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet WITHOUT SIN. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”7. Are priests a special class of people?The Catholic Church teaches:The Catholic church teaches that priests and other Catholic clergymen are of a special class distinguished from the common man and are elevated to being called, “father” and a mediator for confessions.“In order to attach to Christianity great attraction in the eyes of the nobility, the priests adopted the outer garments and adornments which were used in pagan cults.”—Eusebius, ”Life of Constantine”, cited in Altai-Nimalaya, p.94“The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. When you see a priest, think of our Lord Jesus Christ.”—St. John Vianney, patron saint of parish priests → this is blasphemy“The end for which God has instituted the priesthood has been to appoint on earth public persons to watch over the honor of his divine majesty, and to procure the salvation of souls.”—St. Alphonsus Liguori → assumes that the priesthood or the church has power over the state (church-state union).St. Alphonsus Liguori, one of the 36 “doctors of the [Catholic] Church”, writes:“The priest has the power of the keys, or the power of delivering sinners from Hell, of making them worthy of Paradise, and of changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God. And God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His priests, and either not to pardon or to pardon [27]....Were the Redeemer to descend into a church, and sit in a confessional to administer the sacrament of penance, and a priest to sit in another confessional, Jesus would say over each penitent, "Ego te absolve," the priest would likewise say over each of his penitents, "Ego te absolve," and the penitents of each would be equally absolved [28]...THUS THE PRIEST MAY, in a certain manner, BE CALLED the creator of his Creator, since by saying the words of consecration, he creates, as it were, Jesus in the sacrament, by giving him a sacramental existence, and produces him as a victim to be offered to the eternal Father...Let the priest, says St. Laurence Justinian, ‘approach the altar as another Christ.’ [32]”.—Saint Alphonsus Liguori, “The Dignities and Duties of the Priest” (1889), Volume 12, section “Grandeur of the Priestly Power”, p. 27, 28, 32.The Bible teaches:All of mankind is a holy priesthood.Ephesians 11 Peter 28. Who has eternal life?The Catholic Church teaches:Not everyone has eternal life.The Bible teaches:1 John 5:13“These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.”John 3:16“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”9. Which Day is the sabbath-day of the Lord?The Catholic Church says:“Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day - Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes. Did Christ change the day’? I answer no!”—James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Md., “Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons.” (1877-1921), in a signed letter."The Sabbath was Saturday, not Sunday. The Church altered the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of Sunday. Protestants must be rather puzzled by the keeping of Sunday when God distinctly said, 'Keep holy the Sabbath Day.' The word Sunday does not come anywhere in the Bible, so, without knowing it they are obeying the authority of the Catholic Church."—Canon Cafferata, The Catechism Explained, p. 89."If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday, they are following a law of the Catholic Church."—Albert Smith, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal in a letter, February 10, 1920.READ MORE: Multi-denominational and Historical Statements About the SabbathThe Bible teaches:Exodus 20:8–10“8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.”Hebrews 4:4, 9, 10“For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works” “There remains therefore a rest [“keeping of a sabbath”] for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His”.Matthew 28:1“In the END OF THE SABBATH [Saturday], as it began to DAWN TOWARD THE FIRST DAY [Sunday] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.”Matthew 15:3,16“[3] He [Jesus] answered and said to them, ‘Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?’…[16] Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.”Acts 5:29“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”Matthew 15:9“And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”Mark 7:7“And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”10. Can we pray in constant repetition?The Catholic Church speaks:In recent history, Popes such as Pius XI, John Paul I, and John Paul II, and others, have commended and even commanded the use of the rosary in the prayer which is repetitive prayers that are reminiscent of Eastern meditation practiced in Hinduism and Buddhism “to find god from within” which is essentially pantheism via the Catholic rosary prayers."Buddhists and Hindus practice the repetition of a word or phrase in their attempts to empty their minds and reach higher states of consciousness that reveal their own divinity (emphasis in original).”—Roger Oakland, Faith Undone (Silverton, OR: Lighthouse Trails Publishing, 2007): 113-114.Remember, many customs and rituals of the Catholic Church are of Pagan origin as the Catholic Cardinal John Newman explicitly state:“The use of temples, and these dedicated to PARTICULAR SAINTS, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, IMAGES at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison are all of PAGAN ORIGIN, and SANCTIFIED BY THEIR ADOPTION INTO THE CHURCH.”—Cardinal John Henry Newman, “An Essay on The Development of the Christian Doctrine”, p.373.The Bible teaches:Matthew 6:7“And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.”11. Who can forgive us of our sins?The Catholic Church teaches:“If anyone denies that for the full and perfect remission of sins three acts are required on the part of the penitent...namely, contrition, confession and satisfaction, which are called the three parts of penance...let him be anathema. If anyone denies that sacramental confession was instituted by divine law or is necessary for salvation; or says that the manner of CONFESSING SECRETLY TO A PRIEST ALONE, which the Catholic Church always observed from the beginning and still observes, is at variance with the institution and command of Christ and is a human contrivance, let him be anathema.”—Council of Trent, Canon #4The Bible teaches:Isaiah 43Luke 5:24“’But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins’—He said to the man who was paralyzed, ‘I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.’”12. Did Jesus die once and for all?The Catholic Church teaches:Jesus is to die every time during the mass where the bread and wine are “transubstantiated” into the actual blood and body of Christ. With this belief, the priest is symbolically also “creating” God. Transubstantiation basically crucifies Christ continually for every mass. Read below and you will know that Transubstantiation is blasphemy:“Is the sacrifice of Christ on the Criss still offered? THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS STILL OFFERED IN EVERY MASS.”—W. Faerber, Catechism for the Catholic Parochial Schools of the United States, 16th ed., p. 72.“The priest has the power of the keys, or the power of delivering sinners from Hell, of making them worthy of Paradise, and of changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God. And God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His priests, and either not to pardon or to pardon, according as they refuse or give absolution [27]…The sentence of the priest precedes (goes first), and God subscribes (obeys) to it [27]...Were the Redeemer to descend into a church, and sit in a confessional to administer the sacrament of penance, and a priest to sit in another confessional, Jesus would say over each penitent, "Ego te absolve," the priest would likewise say over each of his penitents, "Ego te absolve," and the penitents of each would be equally absolved [28]...THUS THE PRIEST MAY, in a certain manner, BE CALLED the creator of his Creator, since by saying the words of consecration, he creates, as it were, Jesus in the sacrament, by giving him a sacramental existence, and produces him as a victim to be offered to the eternal Father...Let the priest, says St. Laurence Justinian, ‘approach the altar as another Christ’ [32].”—Saint Alphonsus Liguori, “The Dignities and Duties of the Priest” (1889), Volume 12, section “Grandeur of the Priestly Power”, p. 27, 28, 32.“But since Christ our Redeemer declared that to be truly His own body which He offers under the form of bread, it has, therefore, always been a firm belief in the Church of God, and this holy council now declares it anew, that by the consecration of the blood and wine a change is brought about of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of His blood. This change the Catholic Church properly and appropriately calls transubstantiation.”—Reverend H. J. Schroeder (trans.), "Transubstantiation, The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent” (Rockford, Illinois: TAN Books, 1978): 75.The Bible teaches:Hebrews 7:27“who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.”Hebrews 10:10“By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”13. How do we deal with demons?The Catholic Church teaches:Tobias 6:4-8 (Apocrypha)“Open the fish, and take the heart and liver and the gall...if a devil or an evil spirit trouble any, we must make a smoke thereof before the man or the woman, and the party shall no more be vexed. As for the gall, it is good to anoint a man that hath witness in his eyes, and he shall be healed”.The Bible teaches:Mark 16:17“And signs will follow to those believing these things: in My name they will cast out demons.”Acts 16:18“But being distressed, and turning to the demonic spirit, Paul said, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her! And it came out in that hour”.14. How can we be saved?The Catholic Church teaches:Tobias 12:9 (Apocrypha)“For alms doth deliver from death, and shall purge away all sin”.The Bible teaches:1 Peter 1:18-19“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers”15. Should we pray for the dead for the cleansing of sin?The Catholic Church teaches:2 Maccabees 12:43-46 (Apocrypha)“For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should have risen again, it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the dead…Whereupon he made reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin.”The Bible teaches:1 John 1:7“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”16. What should Christians live by?The Catholic Church teaches:“Now if God commands me under pain of damnation to believe what He has taught, He is bound to give me the means to know what He has taught. What is this means? ‘The Bible,’ say the Protestants. But we Catholics say, ‘No, not the Bible, but the Church of God.’”—"An Open Letter To Non-Catholics," Our Catholic Faith Website.“The fact that Scripture and Tradition belong together accounts for two rules that direct the way the Church approaches God’s revelation. The first of these rules is stated very simply by Vatican II in these words: It follows from what has been said that the Church does not draw its knowledge of all that God has revealed from holy Scripture alone. That is why both (Tradition and Scripture) must be accepted and respected with equal affection and honour. Secondly, the unbreakable bond between Scripture and Tradition accounts for the fact that for Catholics, Tradition is the context within which the Scriptures are interpreted, just as Tradition itself has to be understood and lived with reference to Scripture.”—Fr. Bonaventure Hinwood, More Answers to Your Questions (Human & Rousseau, 1983)."Like two sacred rivers flowing from paradise, the Bible and divine Tradition contain the Word of God, the precious gems of revealed truth. Though these two divine streams are in themselves, on account of their divine origin, of equal sacredness, and are both full of revealed truths, still, of the two, Tradition [the sayings of popes and councils] is to us more clear and safe."—Di Bruno, Catholic Belief, p. 33.“Tradition, NOT Scripture, is the rock on which the [Catholic] church of Jesus Christ is built.”—Adrien Nampon (a Jesuit Priest), from the “Catholic Doctrine as Defined by the Council of Trent”, p.157The Bible teaches:Deuteronomy 8:3“So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.”Matthew 4:4“But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”John 5:46-47“For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?”Matthew 15:3,16“[3] He [Jesus] answered and said to them, ‘Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?’…[16] Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.”Acts 5:29“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”Matthew 15:9“And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”Mark 7:7“And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”

ANSWER: Yes, Pope Francis said that but the Bible teaches otherwise.Mark 16:15“15 And he said unto them, Go ye into ALL THE WOLRD, and preach the gospel TO EVERY CREATURE.”Acts 17:17“Therefore he [Paul] REASONED in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.”Acts 2:38–41“38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized EVERY ONe OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and TO ALL THAT ARE AFAR OFF, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.”John 3:16“16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”Matthew 4:16–17“16 The PEOPLE WHICH SAT IN DARKNESS saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. 17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, REPENT: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”Titus 2:11–12“11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared TO ALL MEN, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age”2 Timothy 3:16“16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, for INSTRUCTION in RIGHTEOUSNESS”The Apostle Timothy had told us that the Holy Bible is to be used to:1) Reproof the error of sinners (Romans 3:23-24).2) Correct the error of sinners (Titus 2:15, Job 5:17).3) Provide righteous instruction for those who live by unrighteousness (1 Timothy 6:11).These wouldn’t be stated in the Bible if there was not a problem with people’s moral status.This Jesuit Pope will compromise truth if it would mean to accomplish the goal of universal ecumenism to which the Pope is the Head of the Church, not the Living Christ. The inner doctrine of the Catholic Church is inclined to believe that there is more than one pathway to salvation which is why Pope Francis said that. They outer doctrine teaches that there is no salvation outside of their church.There is no time to waste in evangelizing. Christ is coming back to establish his Heavenly kingdom.CATHOLIC TEACHING VS THE HOLY BIBLE: QuotesI. Where is salvation found?The Catholic Church teaches:“Also well known is the Catholic teaching that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church.”– Pope Pius IX, Encyclical, On Promotion of False Doctrines August 10, 1863.The Bible teaches:Acts 4:10–12“10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”II. Who is the mediator between God and man?The Catholic Church teaches:“Prophetess Of These Last Times, The Immaculate Conception, Mother Of The Church, Mary As The New Eve, Queen Of Heaven and Earth/Queen of Peace, The Assumption, Queen of the Holy Rosary, Queen and Mother of Families, Mary as CO-REDEMPTRIX, MEDIATRIX, ADVOCATE, Our Lady of all Nations, Ark of the New Covenant, Mother of the Second Advent.”—Ten Flynn, Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace (MaxKol Communications, 1992)."The Son of God became man for our salvation but only in Mary and THROUGH MARY."- Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, Jesuit Resource - Mother Mary QuotesThe Bible teaches:Timothy 2:5“For there is one God and ONE MEDIATOR between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,”III. Who should we pray to resist the Devil?The Catholic Church teaches:"If you invoke the blessed Virgin [Mary] when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you."- Saint John Vianney, Jesuit Resource - Mother Mary QuotesThe Bible teaches:James 4:7“7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”IV. Who do we call father?The Catholic Church teaches:“Have no fear when people call me the ‘Vicar of Christ,’ [Vicarius Filii Dei] when they say to me ‘Holy Father,’ or ‘Your Holiness,’ or use titles similar to these, which seem even inimical to the Gospel.”—Pope John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope (New York: Alfred A. Knoff. 1995): 6.The Bible teaches:Matthew 23:9“9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.”V. Should we venerate statues and images?The Catholic Church admits:“The use of temples, and these dedicated to PARTICULAR SAINTS, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, IMAGES at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison are all of PAGAN ORIGIN, and SANCTIFIED BY THEIR ADOPTION INTO THE CHURCH.”—Cardinal John Henry Newman, “An Essay on The Development of the Christian Doctrine”, p.373.“It has often been charged… that CATHOLICISM IS OVERLAID WITH MANY PAGAN INCRUSTATIONS. Catholicism is ready to accept that accusation and even to make it her boast… THE GREAT GOD PAN IS NOT REALLY DEAD, HE IS BAPTIZED”—”The Story of Catholicism” p 37.“It is interesting to note how often our Church has availed herself of practices which were in common use among pagans… Thus it is true, in a certain sense, that some Catholic rites and ceremonies are a REPRODUCTION OF THOSE PAGAN CREEDS…”—John F. Sullivan, ”The Externals of the Catholic Church, Her Government, Ceremonies, Festivals, Sacramentals and Devotions”, published by P.J. Kennedy, NY, 1942), p156.In fact, the Catholic church erased the 2nd commandment and divided the 10th commandment in half to keep the number.The Bible teaches:Exodus 4:5, Exodus 20:4-5, Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 4:16,Deuteronomy 16:22, 1 Thessalonians 1:9, Deuteronomy 27:15,VI. Who is sinless?The Catholic Church teaches:The Catholic Church teaches that Mary is sinless.“The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.”—Pope Pius IX (1854), from the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”, Article IIIThe Bible teaches:Only Jesus is sinless.Romans 3:10–12“10 As it is written: ‘There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.’”Hebrews 4:15“15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.”VII. Are priests a special class of people?The Catholic Church teaches:The Catholic church teaches that priests and other Catholic clergymen are of a special class distinguished from the common man and are elevated to being called, “father” and a mediator for confessions.“In order to attach to Christianity great attraction in the eyes of the nobility, the priests adopted the outer garments and adornments which were used in pagan cults.”—Eusebius, ”Life of Constantine”, cited in Altai-Nimalaya, p.94 →“The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. When you see a priest, think of our Lord Jesus Christ.”–St. John Vianney, patron saint of parish priests → this is blasphemy“The end for which God has instituted the priesthood has been to appoint on earth public persons to watch over the honor of his divine majesty, and to procure the salvation of souls.”– St. Alphonsus Liguori → assumes that the priesthood or the church has power over the state (church-state union).“The priest has the power of the keys, or the power of delivering sinners from Hell, of making them worthy of Paradise, and of changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God. And God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His priests, and either not to pardon or to pardon....Were the Redeemer to descend into a church, and sit in a confessional to administer the sacrament of penance, and a priest to sit in another confessional, Jesus would say over each penitent, "Ego te absolve," the priest would likewise say over each of his penitents, "Ego te absolve," and the penitents of each would be equally absolved...THUS THE PRIEST MAY, in a certain manner, BE CALLED the creator of his Creator, since by saying the words of consecration, he creates, as it were, Jesus in the sacrament, by giving him a sacramental existence, and produces him as a victim to be offered to the eternal Father...Let the priest, says St. Laurence Justinian, ‘approach the altar as another Christ.’”—St. Alphonsus Liguori, “The Dignities and Duties of the Priest” (1927).The Bible teaches:All of mankind is a holy priesthood.Ephesians 11 Peter 2VIII. Who has eternal life?The Catholic Church teaches:Not everyone has eternal life.The Bible teaches:1 John 5:13“13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.”John 3:16“16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”IX. Which Day is the sabbath-day of the Lord?The Catholic Church says:“Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day - Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes. Did Christ change the day’? I answer no!”—James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Md., “Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons.” (1877-1921), in a signed letter."The Sabbath was Saturday, not Sunday. The Church altered the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of Sunday. Protestants must be rather puzzled by the keeping of Sunday when God distinctly said, 'Keep holy the Sabbath Day.' The word Sunday does not come anywhere in the Bible, so, without knowing it they are obeying the authority of the Catholic Church."—Canon Cafferata, The Catechism Explained, p. 89."If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday, they are following a law of the Catholic Church."—Albert Smith, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal in a letter, February 10, 1920.READ MORE: Multi-denominational and Historical Statements About the SabbathThe Bible teaches:Exodus 20:8–10“8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.”X. Can we pray in constant repetition?The Catholic Church speaks:In recent history, Popes such as Pius XI, John Paul I, and John Paul II, and others, have commended and even commanded the use of the rosary in the prayer which is repetitive prayers that are reminicient of Eastern meditation practiced in Hinduism and Buddhism “to find god from within” which is essentially pantheism via the Catholic rosary prayers."Buddhists and Hindus practice the repetition of a word or phrase in their attempts to empty their minds and reach higher states of consciousness that reveal their own divinity (emphasis in original).”—Roger Oakland, Faith Undone (Silverton, OR: Lighthouse Trails Publishing, 2007): 113-114.Remember, many rights and rituals of the Catholic Church are of Pagan origin as the Catholic Cardinal John Newman explicitly state:“The use of temples, and these dedicated to PARTICULAR SAINTS, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, IMAGES at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison are all of PAGAN ORIGIN, and SANCTIFIED BY THEIR ADOPTION INTO THE CHURCH.”—Cardinal John Henry Newman, “An Essay on The Development of the Christian Doctrine”, p.373.The Bible teaches:Matthew 6:7“And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.”XI. Who can forgive us of our sins?The Catholic Church teaches:“If anyone denies that for the full and perfect remission of sins three acts are required on the part of the penitent...namely, contrition, confession and satisfaction, which are called the three parts of penance...let him be anathema. If anyone denies that sacramental confession was instituted by divine law or is necessary for salvation; or says that the manner of CONFESSING SECRETLY TO A PRIEST ALONE, which the Catholic Church always observed from the beginning and still observes, is at variance with the institution and command of Christ and is a human contrivance, let him be anathema.”—Council of Trent, Canon #4The Bible teaches:Isaiah 43Luke 5:24“24′…But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins’—He said to the man who was paralyzed, ‘I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.’”XII. Did Jesus die once and for all?The Catholic Church teaches:Jesus is to die every time during the mass where the bread and wine are “transubstantiated” into the actual blood and body of Christ. With this belief, the priest is symbolically also “creating” God. Transubstantiation basically crucifies Christ continually for every mass.Read below and you will know that Transubstantiation is blasphemy.The priest has the power of the keys, or the power of delivering sinners from Hell, of making them worthy of Paradise, and of changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God. And God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His priests, and either not to pardon or to pardon....Were the Redeemer to descend into a church, and sit in a confessional to administer the sacrament of penance, and a priest to sit in another confessional, Jesus would say over each penitent, "Ego te absolve," the priest would likewise say over each of his penitents, "Ego te absolve," and the penitents of each would be equally absolved...THUS THE PRIEST MAY, in a certain manner, BE CALLED the creator of his Creator, since by saying the words of consecration, he creates, as it were, Jesus in the sacrament, by giving him a sacramental existence, and produces him as a victim to be offered to the eternal Father...Let the priest, says St. Laurence Justinian, ‘approach the altar as another Christ.’”—Saint Alphonsus Liguori, “The Dignities and Duties of the Priest” (1927).“But since Christ our Redeemer declared that to be truly His own body which He offers under the form of bread, it has, therefore, always been a firm belief in the Church of God, and this holy council now declares it anew, that by the consecration of the blood and wine a change is brought about of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of His blood. This change the Catholic Church properly and appropriately calls transubstantiation.”—Reverend H. J. Schroeder (trans.), "Transubstantiation," The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (Rockford, Illinois: TAN Books, 1978): 75.The Bible teaches:Hebrews 7:27“27 who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.”Hebrews 10:10“10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”ETC…