No, the Church is not God. She is founded and sustained by God.
Then it follows that to reject some portion or group from among the ekklesia in whole or in part, is not exactly the same as rejecting Christ --- for they are not one and the same.
I've seen enough to be able to determine that the [Roman] Catholic church ecclesiastical community, has pattern and practice, teachings and dogmas not precisely as what was originally founded.
Singular "papacy" over all --- not in the original charter --- not by practice, not by scripture, not by history.
The "hyper" portion of the hyer-dulia afforded to no one but Mary --- is yet another "development", and was not taught for many centuries. Asking Mary to inhabit one's soul "heart", teaching that "Mary" has "sovereignty... over all hearts"
4) Implore Mary to lend you her heart so that you may receive her Son with her dispositions. Remind her that her Son's glory requires that he should not come into a heart so sullied and fickle as your own, which could not fail to diminish his glory and might cause him to leave. Tell her that if she will take up her abode in you to receive her Son -which she can do because of the sovereignty she has over all hearts - he will be received by her in a perfect manner without danger of being affronted or being forced to depart.
is absolutely not Gospel as Paul and others preached, but some other "thing".
Salvation [in part?] by works, or some sense of "fusing" works to grace, by which one can then "merit grace"? Utter nonsense. One cannot merit grace, not work to earn it, or it be no longer grace.
But you have the temerity to speak of heretics?
I'm not ashamed of not consenting to papacy and "Marianism".