Hi Daniel,
I so admire your namesake (the prophet Daniel in the lion’s den!) And your urgent pursuit of the truth in all instances...but we likely will not see eye to eye on this issue. From childhood onward, I have been shepherded by both Catholics and Evangelicals towards the Gospel, to the salvation found only in Christ...And continue to be fed the meat of faith in both contexts. I praise God I have been spared abuse in either context.
Thank God if you found Christ, but as a former practicing RC who became born again while still one, i can attest that the meat of Rome is far too tainted, and is the most manifest deformation of what the NT believed.