I’m sorry to hear about your friend. I am thinking that if he rejects all discussions about the matter, there is something else going on there. If he had left in disgust, wouldn’t he be happy to discuss everything that’s wrong with the Church with someone like you?
I rather think that he’d just prefer not to discuss the Church with you anymore. I can certainly understand that. He was surely embarrassed by those priestly pretenders, as all Catholics are, and I would venture to guess his nose was rubbed in it. Are you still friends?
I’m sorry that nothing I say here can alter the way you present your opinions. The Catholic Church lives the Gospel. Every word of it. No omissions. It is the light in the darkness and does not fear the darkness. There is quite a bit of Darkness in these posts, however.
The presentation I am making is not an opinion. The thing you ought to be sorry about, is that the RCC will not compare her cultish view with the Scriptures. That is what this thread was all about to begin with, but reread your posts and notice how they diverge from this topic. The Gospel of grace was presented by the Apostles and writers of the NT, but Rome has mangled this message to become its own self-serving, self-aggrandizing, story of Darkness. It has little time to repent, if it can.