Yes, the catholic church is a perplexing enigma.  I had to read several 
of their major wordy documents and write papers on them.  I was befuddled 
by how well they could obfuscate what they were saying and spend 50 pages 
explaining something such that I couldn't summarize what they said!
  I think there probably are some people who are truly saved in the Catholic  
church, but I also see a lot of strange things: 
  - Idols of various saints in cars, on walls, on jewelry in prayers; 
  - Worshipping Mary (refuted, in my mind, in Luke 11:27-28); 
  - Forbiding to eat meat and to marry (1 Tim 4:1,3 - check this out!)
  - The Crucifix (I don't know who that guy is on the crucifix - my savior 
    finished the payment, came off the cross and rose from the dead.)

  Interestingly, they hold to transubstantiation in communion where the 
bread and wine don't symbolize Christ's body, but rather actually become 
Christ's flesh and blood - essentially and active re-crucifixion of 
Christ during communion.  This is further evidenced in thier use of the 
crucifix over the cross.  The cross is empty, signifying a risen Savior 
and a debt already paid; but the crucifix continues to signify debt in 
the process of being paid.
  Also, there's purgatory, which I see no evidence of existing from the 
Bible - I think they got the idea from the Apocrypha, which they added 
much later to the Bible.
  They hold to a "three-legged" stool, that is, they put equal trust in 
the Bible, in the Apocrypha and in what the Pope says. 
  I personally don't like images of "Christ" - be they paintings, sculpture 
films, etc..  It's clear to me that we don't need an image of Christ to 
worship (see John 20:27-31) because we have Him through the Holy Spirit.  
Furthermore, we don't actually have any idea of what Jesus looked like!  
Everytime you see an image of Jesus, such as the Jesus film, you aren't 
looking at Jesus, but only some actor following a story line.  Every step 
the actor takes, every movemovent the actor makes, the expression on his 
face - these things change how you think of Jesus, even if you don't realize 
it.  This is bad because these subtle impressions are not from the Bible, 
but are man-made.