Of course not. The Bible says the opposite.
So for you the free gift of GRACE through FAITH is not enough for you to be saved. You believe you must do something to pay for this gift?
I am still in the dark as to where you saw "suspicion of the gift" in the Catechism.
I didn't look.
The quote from your catechism was to show you that even your church believed the "rock" was faith in Jesus not Peter. It is also interesting in that it also shows a Calvinist bent in that it says "drawn by the Father".
I just do what the Bible tells me. The gift is given -- we cannot pay for it even if we wanted to. But works are necessary in order for one to be saved by that gift.
even your church believed the "rock" was faith in Jesus not Peter.
"On the rock of this faith confessed by St. Peter, Christ built his Church" is a completely Catholic statement. Why is it even controversial?