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The fact is Catholics have had the sacraments for as long as there has been a Catholic Church.

Yep. Ever since about the 5th century AD. You are in the X ring on that one

Not a one of your Catholic ancestors watched a protestant TV evangelist and was told they had to be “born again” or they were going to hell.

Never knew Jesus was a protestant evangelist in John 3, but hey, it is why I hang out on FR. Learn new stuff every day. Interesting that Jesus told a man he had to be baptised into a church that did not yet exist to go to heaven. "HANG ON, DUDE! IT IS COMING" The application of this is just silly, since the Christian ordinance of baptism had not even been instituted when Nicodemus had his conversation with Jesus

They all believed in praying the rosary. They all believed in confessing their sins to the priest.

This is false. You cannot point to this being a mandatory practice of the early church. This is what I mean by telling you that you don't know the history of your own organization.

But for some reason they were all wrong and only “born again” protestants that have only existed for 500 years all right.

Not so. I hung out with some beautiful and gracious nuns in Colombia who clearly knew Christ. The testimony of one of them was "I have been a nun for 20 years but have only known Jesus as my savior for 5" When I told her that this was quite an unorthodox statement and VERY unusual for a Roman Catholic, she told me "not among those of us who know the Lord!" I was flabbergasted and told her that her language was more akin to a protestant. She just smiled and told me of her ministry, which was to teach bible study methods to lay people in Colombia. That kind of stuff is RAMPANT through the history of the Roman Church. You are simply mistakened and believing falsehood and lies if you think that just because there was no ORGANIZATIONAL schism in the Western Church (really, not even that is true) that there was not a current of true faith in the church. This is a lie that is believed by both ignorant protestants and ignorant roman catholics.... though it is believed by ignorant fundamentalist protestants more often than catholics, in my experience.

If you believe this, I saw a sighting for Bigfoot outside the back door a few minutes ago. Come on down start looking for him. Maybe you’ll find two or three.

Your understanding of what your own church teaches and its history is more akin to the Bigfoot stuff. You really should read the writings of one of the Popes. Bernard of Clairvaux would set you straight on much of this foolishness.