Greetings Blain,
From what you have said, it sounds like you missed the most important part of your research and that being researching the actual teachings of Roman Catholicism, their dogma's and catechism. What did you find out about Mary worship, the Eucharist, Transubstantiation, the Sacraments, Purgartory, indulgences, etc., etc.? By the way Epostle regarding what you said "All Catholic doctrine is directly or indirectly from scripture" is false, as none of those teachings just mentioned are not found in scripture. And Blain, those details just mentioned do not take years of study in order to understand that they are not from the word of God, but are false teachings, that is for those who are familiar with Scripture.
The liturgy of Roman Catholicism reminds me of Gentile Pharisees, with their flowing robes, their rosary beads (Phylacteries), and the love of their pious positions, their whole hierarchy, which is the opposite of how Jesus said we are supposed to be. When you look into the history of the RCC and her pope's, then you can understand where she came from and what her future agenda is. The pope's are the offspring of Constantine and the emperors that followed and they inherited their positions as political and religious leaders. Because the RCC sees herself as the true Church, her agenda is to bring all people and all religious sects under her power. I've said it many times, when that ruler comes, that man of lawlessness, it will empower the papal office and anyone who resists, just as it was of old, they will be labeled as a heretic, with grave consequences. Did you know that there are currently hundreds of anathema's in RCC dogma and catechism? Here is an example of just one:
"If anyone says that in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denies that wonderful and singular change of the whole substance of the bread into the body and the whole substance of the wine into the blood, the appearances only of bread and wine remaining, which change the Catholic Church most aptly calls transubstantiation, let him be anathema."
The above is from the Canons from the counsel of Trent concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist (1551). This canon is basically saying, if anyone says that the Eucharist is only meant to be figurative and that transubstantiation is not taking place, then let them be accursed. As I said, this is just one, there are hundreds of these anathema's. For those of us who know the truth, that the Lord's supper was meant to be figurative of his body and blood, then the RCC anathema is against us. Someone forgot to tell them that you have to have God behind you in order for those anathema's to be valid.