Speaking only for myself as what you would classify as a protestant, herein lies the problem for me when attemtpting to understand what are true Catholic practices and beliefs that the RCC intends to teach.
I'm a reasonably good researcher, and I find it difficult to ferret out what real RCC doctrine is, as opposed to what is practiced rightly or wrongly. As an outsider, pieceing together the catechisms, encyclicals, councils, indults, canonizations, who is schismatic and who isn't, when infallability applies or not, and why the apocryphal books are included in the Catholic bible, it is a lot to wade through even when it's in english, let alone in latin.
As a protestant, the simple tests of biblical or not, fruit producing or not, minimally provide a better understood basis for what is intended to be "Truth".
But to ask a question and site a confusing example is to invite a lot of invective which seems unwarranted.
Yes the RC may have enemies here, but not as many as you imagine, and your beliefs are not as straight forward to understand as you think.
If you want a good, basic idea of what Catholics believe and practice, read the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It's in English. It is completely authoritative (its publication is approved by Pope John Paul II). Considering how comprehensive it is, it isn't too long (about 700 pages of text). And it's set up in such a way that you can look for specific answers to specific questions.
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