[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Utter hogwash.

That is an entirely accurate summary of your knowledge of Catholicism and the Bible.

[Dynamo]

I was raised a Catholic, My aunt is a Dominican Sister, and I converted from Catholicism in my 40's... and that was some time ago. You presume much, yet know very little... a trait we share, all us men.

[Dynamo]

Even the Gnostics (1st John) knew how to take small portions of scripture and use it to attempt to distort God's Word. Satan himself used this tactic when Jesus was in the desert for 40 days. It is the entirety of The Word on which the true Church shall rest.

Those rituals found in Catholicism and not in the Bible are man-made, pagan rites.