I’ve never known any Catholic to say “works” will save them. No where in our faith does it say that works alone will save.
Christ saves.
And frankly, I believe that the whole email is a lie.
From the RCC Council of Trent, in response to the Reformation:
CANON 9: “If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will; let him be anathema.”
Sounds like “salvation by faith and works or your a demon” to me.
All of the proclamations of Trent are still upheld as official doctrine by the RCC.