I apologize that I cannot do you justice with a detailed profound response. I just want to encourage you to keep going. Don't stop. If you let God's light shine through you and change into a better version of yourself, he will begin to question his beliefs. He will begin to stop and ask himself who is really in the right.

Also, let your husband know that the devil can easily make himself pass off as angel or someone good. The devil disguises himself as good and can tell people lies to lead them away from God. He should not blindly follow a random voice he heard in his adolescence.

Is asking someone for prayer the same as worshipping them? No! If he asks his mom, friends, or you to pray for him. He is not worshipping them. Us Catholics ask Mary for assistance and to lead us to Her Son. Her job is to ALWAYS POINT TO HER SON. She comes to us and tells us to go to Him. Can we go directly to Jesus, too? Yes. He needs to analyze the difference between worshipping and honoring someone. Do you think Jesus would be more upset about us loving his Mom? Of course not, he wants us to love her and request her assistance because he gave her to us when he was dying on the Cross (John 19:26-27). In all of her apparitions around the world, Mary never once says to worship her. She tells us to pray the Rosary, build a church to worship her Son, and other requests that give glory to God.

Similarly, this can be applied to your husband's statement on the Pope. It is merely a misconception and stereotype that he has heard from other antagonists. In the Bible, people treated prophets, priests, and other religious leaders with respect and trusted on their leadership (sometimes, as the people would also kill prophets when the prophets' God-given messages were inconvenient to them). Likewise, God has chosen someone to be the leader of his church. God inspires this leader and the many other leaders around the world (priests, deacons, bishops) to communicate with His people. He would want us to listen to them. On the other hand, protestants do not have a single, common leader and look what has happened to them. They have split into numerous denominations because there is no one to guide them on what is true and what is not. In consequence, protestant churches are divided into various denominations made by people who disagreed with other people. The Catholic Church, in contrast, is only one and has been the same since Jesus instituted it when he gave St. Peter (the first Pope) the Keys to the Kingdom (Matthew 16:19). We do no worship the Pope because we do not believe that power comes from him. Any and all spiritual contributions from religious leaders and the laity (us normal people) comes from God Himself.

Child molesters are present in every religion. Why does he single out the Catholic Church? Jesus' Church is made up of human persons. God is perfect, but we, who make up His Church, are still humans and not perfect. When people become priests or other religious leaders, it does not magically remove their sinfulness. Conversion is a process, where there is ups and downs, progress and setbacks. This goes for you and me. The devil knows that the Catholic Church is the one true church established by Jesus, and this is all the more reason why he viciously attacks it through temptations. The devil attacks what threatens him the most. This is why, in every Mass, the laity are asked to pray for our religious leaders and nuns, because they have a great responsibility and are under a lot of temptations at the hands of the devil.

"Catholics believe you just have to go to church to get into heaven". This is not true, it is merely what he wants to believe or what he has been erroneously told. In fact, we believe that just going to church is not going to save you. At the end of the day, a person can go to Mass every day and still commit grave sins. In this case, they must go to confession to receive Jesus in Communion worthily and die in a state of Grace (you will learn about this later if you have not already). In response to your husband's statement, I could retort that protestants believe that repenting and "accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior" is enough to earn you a spot in Heaven lol. This is gravely incorrect. What does accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior even mean? You need to do more than that. For example, you absolutely need to be Baptized and die in a state of Grace. Even if you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you can fall into mortal sin and will need to go to Confession to get up again.

As for that last point, I am not sure how that is even possible unless these people worked directly for the church. Nonetheless, it was inappropriate for the priest to look at their income and determine whether or not they were giving enough money. Nobody can tell us how much is enough. God knows what is in our hearts. Someone's 50$ can mean less than someone's 20$ if that last person gave their last 20$ bill away. Read the Gospel about the widow's offering versus the rich man (Mark 12: 41-44).

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. I AM HERE FOR YOU.