I think from your mindset and age that finding truth has long gone from you. Well, you best hope God has given you the opportunity to cleanse your soul of sin to purify it to be in His presence. Just magically clicking your heels together and saying Jesus forgive me all my unstated sins that I don’t really repent of but command you to forgive me...no, that won’t do it. Jesus did give power to Priests through the lineage from the apostles down all the way to today. But, you are never going to be able to understand that anymore than you can understand the bible. Baptism cleanses us from original sin, that is the main purpose of it. Then, we are born again at the second stage of baptism...confirmation. That is all biblical and indeed there is not one thing I have been able to find that Catholics have wrong in their doctrine. I cannot say the same about Protestantism...indeed, the truth is with over 20,000 different theologies of protestant thinking...it is a perversion of God’s Church at best.
At this point we are going to go around in circles as you continue to spew false doctrine based upon limited experience and thinking by Protestants many of whom have a primary purpose of trying to refute Jesus Church. Well, God Bless you...
Your Catholic ORG assertion is a bold lie from the pit of Hell, since ONLY the Blood of Christ cleanses from all sin: