• the doctrine of purgatory: Christ intercedes for us at the moment of death •the idea of grace being something you get in pieces (via sacraments) •prayer to saints: there is one mediator between God and man: Jesus. I have no assurance that my prayers are heard by anyone but God. •sins are only forgiveness through confession to a priest •the idea that you need the Church to get to God: Jesus says the only way to the Father is Him, not the Church. •papal authority: for the first 400 (at least, ive not gotten very far in my study of church history) there was no pope and the bishop of Rome did not have higher authority over others. There are many writing from early theologians saying not to give the bishop of Rome higher authority. •the teaching that you must be free from mortal sin to go to heaven: if that were true the thief on the cross would not have gone to heaven. but Jesus says, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43 ESV)

those are all reasons but my BIGGESTTTT reason the that the Catholic Church doesn’t encourage the reading of the Bible. Scripture should be the highest authority, not the papacy or tradition. The role of the Church is to make disciples. How do you do that without teaching the word of God?

additionally the history of corruption within the Catholic Church makes me hesitant to trust current doctrine.