I asked. But just because the state you live in is “Catholic” really doesn’t mean much anymore.
Your average Catholic layman is uneducated about Catholicism.
That’s been my experience in almost 20 years of being a Catholic.
But I asked if you have close friends who are Catholic and who know their faith?
I didn’t presume anything.
I think we both know the implications were there. It does distress me that the Gospel has been so maligned on this thread. Protestants would NEVER and DO NOT advocate in any way “whole sale sinning” as implied on some of the posts here. When one is indwelt and sealed with the Holy Spirit (which comes with repentance and salvation) one is a “new creature”. As the Scriptures say “The Old things are passed away”. As another poster stated here if the fruit isn’t in evidence, there’s no true salvation, but the fruit is the EVIDENCE of the faith — not salvific in itself. That is basic to most Protestant testimonies of the Gospel. (I won’t say all because the term “Protestant” to most Catholics implies anyone who isn’t Catholic — which isn’t so, historically, but that’s a subject for another day - and that covers too much ground for such generalization.)