It would certainly appear that they are. But of course that could not be possible...nor would Christ have endulged in this....He would have been breaking the law.
Catholics keep missing the point that Jesus is our great high priest. That’s his role now. He is no longer the sacrifice. That was done once and is over with.
But of course, if HE’S our high priest and not the ongoing sacrifice, they’d have no need for their own priesthood which they have set up. They’d be shooting themselves in the foot if they actually taught what Scripture teaches about the priesthood of Christ and the priesthood of the believer.
Their whole hierarchy would come crumbling down and the Catholic church would lose its grip on millions of people worldwide because people would realize that it’s not needed any more to access God.
All those priests would be obsolete and have to get a real job and work to earn a living.
And of course, as we have been taught by that great theologian Zwingli, God couldn't be in two places at once so that really should put an end to it. It's remarkable that it took Christians 1500 years to figure that out!