Why are you telling Catholics what we believe?
You are so mistaken.
Gee, I don't know....maybe because of stuff like this....
Catholicsm on creation....
God himself created the visible world in all its richness, diversity and order. Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of divine "work", concluded by the "rest" of the seventh day (CCC 337).
Catholicism on Noah....
Joe Paprocki Answers
The Author : Joe Paprocki Joe Paprocki, D.Min., is National Consultant for Faith Formation at Loyola Press in Chicago. He has over 30 years of experience in pastoral ministry in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Joe is the author of numerous books on pastoral ministry and catechesis, including The Bible Blueprint, Living the Mass, and bestsellers The Catechist's Toolbox and A Well-Built Faith (all from Loyola Press). See more articles by Joe Paprocki (67).
When Scripture says that “God is my rock,” (Psalm 18:2) we are not to believe that God is literally a rock. The image, while not intended to be literal, expresses a truth about God using figurative language – like a rock, God is strong, steadfast, solid, and can be leaned on! Likewise, the story of Noah’s Ark employs a great deal of figurative language to express an absolute truth about God and our relationship with him: when we sin, it is as if we are drowning, however, God will spare us if we live justly as Noah did.
http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/do-catholics-believe-that-noahs-ark-is-a-factual-event
Catholicism on Jonah....
Catholics are free to understand the story of Jonah and the whale as literal history or as didactic fiction. In Catholicism and Fundamentalism, Karl Keating writes: "The Catholic Church is silent on the proper interpretation of many biblical passages, readers being allowed to accept one of several understandings. Take, as an example, Jonah’s escapade at sea, which readers often find disturbing. Ronald Knox said that ‘no defender of the sense of Scripture ever pretended, surely, that this was a natural event. If it happened, it was certainly a miracle; and not to my mind a more startling miracle than the raising of Lazarus, in which I take it Catholics are certainly bound to believe. Surely what puts one off the story of Jonah is the element of the grotesque that is present in it’ (Ronald Knox and Arnold Lunn, Difficulties, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 109). http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/is-the-story-of-jonah-and-the-whale-a-myth
Salvation....you should have learned by now that I don't make rash statements about the false teachings of catholicism without having researched the position. Apparently catholics, once again, prove they don't know what their own church teaches.
Please don’t put all Catholics in a category like this. Aren’t you being judgmental — and besides that — are you mind-reading?