“being told you have to pay for salvation”
Lies
The abuses were all resolved at the Council of Trent.
Abuses can be a justification for reformation of the practice only of religion, NOT for revamping the principles which have been abused.
The following is a summarization of a 1935 review entitled “The Psychoanalysis of Luther: Escape from Pessimism”, by Francis J McGarrigle. S.J.
>https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=652<
Wait, just a second.
You just told me that the abuses were lies.
And then you told me the abuses were corrected.
That’s the kind of doublethink that I’d expect from the audience of Colbert.
So you admit the RCC was in error prior to Trent. How can you be assured it is not in error now?