All of which can be argued from scripture itself. A lot of catholics need to reread their bible and not just go by the doctrine dictated by men. matthew 12: 46-50 is pretty clear about where Mary sits in terms of overall hierarchy.
But you do you man. You're still saved as long as your faith in Jesus is genuine. Just realize that catholics are basically on par with mormons in terms of dogma and unnecessary worship practices.
If you read the post link to the Vatican article, you'd see what they said about Mary. Catholics are the original Christians, there was a Church before there was a Christian Bible and that Church without a Bible had the fullness of truth, the one deposit of faith. You accept the Bible that the Church produced, and the chapters and verses that they placed on the letters and books.
Catholics are the original Christians
Can you show me where, in scripture, that is said? Catholic is the church that endured, but there is NO WHERE in Acts that says ANYTHING about a "Catholic church", a pope, or anything. There is an EARLY church, but there is no direct scripture that ties A to B, and you'll have to excuse me if I don't find ANYTHING the Vatican says as very reliable. For all we know, it could be a situation like the Quran where two sects fight over the main religion, and Catholics just smashed out every other sect of the early church, including some that may very well have been older or direct than they were. We have no direct evidence on this subject besides whatever the Vatican decides to make up.
You accept the Bible that the Church produced,
Bro. Stop. Stop and learn, PLEASE, before you make such an uneducated statement. 200 years ago, ok, when the KJV was the only bible around. But even then, you had translations from people such as Martin Luther, which also discredit you. Modern bible translations are done via original scripts that have been discovered in the 2000 years since Jesus lived. NONE of the bibles I use on a daily basis have a scriptural basis on work done by that church. Quite the contrary, they are translations of the source hebrew, greek, ararmaic scripts directly to english. You can't even make the arguement that the church "carried the bible through history and formated it for us" because, pretending for a second that the catholic church never existed, we STILL could rewrite the entire bible based on all the original scrolls we have without ever touching a Vatican source.
When you impose a man made fallible interpretation on scripture you end up with various belief traditions. In the earliest days of Christianity, the faith was proclaimed orally by the apostles and their immediate successors, without a fixed collection of New Testament writings. The first generation of believers did not yet have a written New Testament, but received the fullness of Christ's teaching through apostolic preaching, example, and the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit. This living Tradition (encompassing doctrine, worship, and moral instruction) formed the complete expression of the faith, as the apostles "proclaimed in public" the Gospel before committing it to writing under divine inspiration.
The key is to find the Apostolic Tradition the original full deposit of faith which will help you interpret the Bible. Acts 8:30-31 "So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” He replied, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” 2 Thessalonians 2:15 "Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours." 1 Corinthians 11:2 "I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions, just as I handed them on to you."
Lol wait. Ignatius of Antioch in the first century AD stated where jesus is, there is the catholic church.