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Then why are you demanding that we do good works in order to get salvation if Catholic teaching is that we’re NOT saved by works?

Catholics have this little semantical "trick" they play about that. They will claim up one side and down the other that they DO believe we are saved by grace and not works - just not grace through faith alone. But to them "works" must mean the works of the Law of Moses which include the ceremonial laws given to the Jews. What they will not agree to is that when "works" are spoken of in Scripture, it means ANY kind of good works. The perverted gospel of Catholicism is that faith AND good works are necessary for salvation. While accusing Protestants of not believing all of Scripture, they fail to see their own duplicity. Passages such as this from Romans, for example:

Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

Paul was NOT talking about the Law of Moses here because he just got done talking about Abraham who was justified by faith when the Law of Moses was still 400 years in the future. The adage about trying to nail Jello to the wall is a good word picture of the contortions they have to go through to twist God's word.

The gospel is crystal clear - we are saved by the grace of God through faith and not by works SO THAT NO ONE MAY BOAST.