Read the scripture quoted by me. No Church teaches what is said by the apostles in those scriptures. In fact they teach a different gospel.
By the way I know what the Catholic Church teaches, and it is not what Jesus taught, nor what the apostles taught.
Interestingly - a lot of what the Catholic Church teaches is closer to Tanakh, - instead of what much later "Christian" groups taught and teach.
It appears that over the years - the Jewish Jesus - was changed into a different person.
For instance Catholics are chided for asking Mary or saints for intercession with God. However, the Hebrew did ask their dead relatives, and famous dead people, to intercede with God.
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Confession and forgiveness of sins? - Joh 20:23 Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.
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Call no man Father? -
Jdg 17:10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a
father priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
Jdg 18:19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a
father priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
Ab Kohen le·'av u·le·cho·hen; A Father Priest.
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They get chided for their gold and wealth, - however - Tanakh says to give gold, silver, fine cloth, and the best to the priests and Temple. The Temple had gold fixtures, even tables covered in gold.
Exodus 35:1-10 “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, saying, ‘Take from among you a contribution to the LORD; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as
the LORD’S contribution: gold, silver, and bronze, and blue, purple and scarlet material, fine linen, goats’ hair, and rams’ skins dyed red, and porpoise skins, and acacia wood, and oil for lighting, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense, and onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece. And let every skillful man among you come, and make all that the LORD has commanded’”
1 Kings 6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there. 20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high.
He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar. 21
Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold. 22 So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
29 On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. 30
He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
1Cronicles 29
2 With all my resources I have provided
for the temple of my God—gold for the gold work, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron and wood for the wood, as well as
onyx for the settings,
turquoise, stones of various colors, and all kinds of fine stone and marble—all of these in large quantities. 3 Besides, in my devotion to the temple of my God I now give my personal treasures of
gold and silver for the temple of my God, over and above everything I have provided for this holy temple: 4 three thousand talents of gold (gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver for the overlaying of the walls of the buildings, 5 for the gold work and the silver work, and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now, who is willing to consecrate themselves to the Lord today?”
6 Then the leaders of families, the officers of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of the king’s work gave willingly. 7 They gave toward the work on the temple of God five thousand talents and ten thousand daricse of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze and a hundred thousand talentsh of iron. 8 Anyone who had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the temple of the Lord in the custody of Jehiel the Gershonite.
Read Exodus 28 -
“The craftsmen must
make the ephod of finely woven linen and skillfully embroider it with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread. 7 It will consist of two pieces, front and back, joined at the shoulders with two shoulder-pieces. 8 The decorative sash will be made of the same materials: finely woven linen embroidered with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
9 “Take two
onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the tribes of Israel. 10 Six names will be on each stone, arranged in the order of the births of the original sons of Israel. 11 Engrave these names on the two stones in the same way a jeweler engraves a seal.
Then mount the stones in settings of gold filigree.
22 To attach the chest piece to the ephod,
make braided cords of pure gold thread. 23 Then make
two gold rings and attach them to the top corners of the chestpiece. 24 Tie the two gold cords to the two rings on the chest piece.
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