True.
I’m sure you had to “defend the RC faith” at some point and you did so, like me. We did exactly as they are doing. I don’t fault them.
We can pray that The Holy Spirit opens their eyes & heart to the truth. While there is still time.
I remember when I was a teen thinking that Roman Catholics was the TRUE church.
Other Prot churches just didn’t quite get there yet. They were sorta Christians but just barely. I felt a lot of pride, too, at thinking that I belonged to the *correct* church while they didn’t. But once they knew better, they’d become Catholics too.
I felt sorry for them, but never had read the Bible at that point (being told I wasn’t allowed to; it was the job of the priests and nuns to do that and tell us what it meant. Because they were especially trained in that and only someone specially trained in religion could understand it and tell us what it meant.
So I never got to see the inconsistencies myself before I got saved and went out and bought my own Bible.