Can you post me to the study that proves this conclusion? Oh....I already know.....this is your own assumption.
It’s partly my own observation based on the Catholics I know who left, and those who stay really are woefully ignorant of their Catholicism.
Catholics aren’t taught apologetics, so they know how to respond when preachers start banging against their already weak faith.
When you post scripture verse I don’t read them the way you intend them to be read because I always ask myself who the intended audience was when the were written along with asking how they would have been received in antiquity.
The more I started studying the scriptures and the Church Fathers, the more I came to see how limited Protestant Biblical hermaneutics were.
Protestants engage in eisegesis by pigeonholing the Bible into the present. If you want to understand the Bible, you need to read the Desert Fathers.