I was raised Roman Catholic and did not hear the gospel until I was in my 20s. By God’s grace and sovereignty I am a Christ follower (Reformed Baptist) and wanted to share with you folks in love and respect and biblical truth there are numerous falsehoods taught in the Catholic Church that are the antithesis of scripture. While God does not speak audibly to people anymore, as we have the completed Old and New Testaments. Mary herself was not sinless and even stated her need for a savior in Luke 1:47. We are to pray to God ALONE as Christ followers (Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:6, Jeremiah 33:3, 1 Timothy 2:5). Purgatory does not exist, as this was later added in the book of Maccabees, which is not the Bible. When you die, you go to one of 2 places, heaven or hell (Matthew 25:46, Revelation 21, Romans 6:23) We are not to call anyone in church leadership ‘Father’. (Matthew 23:9) We are not to carve or design statues of Jesus or the apostles (Exodus 20:4-5, Leviticus 26:1, Psalm 115:4-8). In addition to these, there is not a single reference in the Bible of holy water, alter boys, rosaries, venial sin, or mortal sin. We are saved by grace alone, by faith alone, in Christ Jesus alone (Ephesians 2). Apart from that, we’re not dying in sin, we are dead in sin. I sincerely pray in God’s will that you’ll not take my mere word for it, but go to the verses that I shared.