And I'm sure every catholic priest is well versed in the Hebrew and Greek and can parse the verses correctly. If their not doing this then they aren't "properly" trained.
Most catholics I know have not committed Scripture to memory.
They don't identify as followers of Christ, but rather identify as Catholic.
Most catholic theology I've seen takes Scripture out of context and twists it to mean something not supported by the text.
A lot of catholic theology is not biblical: priests cannot be married, you can lose your salvation, you can only receive forgiveness through a priest, worship of mary, you have to believe the catechism, etc.
before you start bashing protestant churches it'd be best if the catholic church searched its own beliefs and lined them up with the bible.
I'm not sure what churches you claim to have been to and we have to way to corroborate or deny your claim but John 3:16 states:
For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
that is what keeps you out of hell.
Same beliefs instituted by Christ 2,000 years ago. Beliefs that don’t change with the wind or a show of hands. The total opposite of breakaway faiths - that broke away because they want to do it their way and not God’s way. And let me be the first say Catholic priests have more theology/scriputural training in their big toe than 99% of protestant pastors, where thousands have no training at all in preaching the Word of God. They just start preaching and call themselves a pastor or reverend. As in Reverend Al Sharpton, or Pastor Joel Osteen, neither one having one minute of theology and or Biblical education.