Yes, thru YESHUA alone. Not a Preist or Pope or Mary. This is more of a rewards issue.
Yes, I bring it up because Protestants are always brow-beating Catholics for the Eucharist or Sacrament of Penance. “You don’t need that for salvation!” Then these Dispensationalists talk as if “But you need to support Israel.”
Although I don’t know why you bring up the pope. We Catholics keep telling you Prots, we don’t worship the pope or Mary.