When I was much younger in the Lord, I looked into Catholicism, and even though found there were things that directly contradicted the Bible, I still watched and listened to EWTN beginning from 2006. But one thing after the other led me, by this point, to start to see it as possibly a cult, or sharing many features of cults.
“even though found there were things that directly contradicted the Bible”
I’m sorry, but your “findings” were misunderstandings. Nothing in Catholicism contradicts the Bible in any way.
As Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen wrote, “There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church—but there are millions who hate what they mistakenly think the Catholic Church teaches.”
And, “Evil is lonely when it’s left by itself. It has to have company. It’s got to form a city, a corporation, a group. Circe was the basis of all evil communications, whatever they be—press, radio, television, pornography, anything. That which is wicked and base wants to make everyone else base, otherwise it’s not content and happy. So you see, there’s nothing new. Despair is only happening to new people.”
While I’m at it, these two as well: “The judges in the middle ages, whenever they sentenced anyone to death, had to receive communion with that man the day of his death, to remind the condemned man that, after all, although I am executing justice, you belong to a greater realm of mercy and understanding and compassion.
and
“America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so much overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded…In the face of this broadmindedness, what America needs is intolerance.”