OTOH, the RCC teaches that a changing body of men (the pope and the magisterium) is God's appointed instrument of instruction, thus putting "other mediators" and "another Christ" between God and men.
Which is condemned by God's word.
The article is correct in one distinction, however. The RCC is materially-minded, while Protestants are spiritually-minded.
The RCC believes physical matter can actually become holy (which is a type of wizardly alchemy) while Protestants know that only God is holy, and all whom God inhabits, by His grace alone.
And I doubt the husband of this priest's neice calls himself "Jimbo." It's usually a pejorative meant to demean and belittle.
“...Protestants and Catholics is that Protestants believe Scripture is the inspired word of God and the Holy Spirit is God’s means of instructing men through His word.”
Let me fix that for you:
Catholics believe Scripture is the inspired word of God and the Holy Spirit is God’s means of instructing men through His word.”
There. Fixed it.
The biggest problem is that some refuse to respect others.
“The RCC believes physical matter can actually become holy (which is a type of wizardly alchemy)...”
Christ’s own words are not alchemy, thank you.
Because you do not believe, doesn’t give you license to trash the beliefs of others.
I certainly won’t bother with you even though you are missing so much in your belief “system.”
I think a distinction that we often forget is the relationship between church and state. The RCC emerged through state sanction. It grew in authority and power through its connection to the state. During the 1,100 plus years between when it emerged and the Reformation there were large periods where it was as much a political and judicial organization as it was a church. In fact during many of those periods it was the organizing force of European civilization.
The vast majority of Christian churches not associated with the RCC do not have that historic link to the state. It makes for a very different view of the role of the Christian church.
Scripture is True when it says of men that, without life in Christ and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, man is seeing yet blind, hearing but deaf, living but dead. No man can be argued into the kingdom of God nor convinced of the Truth. God calls those whom He has chosen - we are worse than unable to save them unless He has chosen them.
How long should we try to convince the RCs of the truth?