They, like the protestants weren't evil, just wrong.
Really Christ called them whitewashed graves who led others astray but they were also sure they had the whole truth and were better than others
Yeshua assured his disciples that the pharisees were the embodiment of evil.
They were the unbearable burden that he took to the cross to destroy.
If right and wrong is your standard, both protestants and catholics are quite wrong on some very basic principles.
That is the point of Y’shua’s declarations in Matthew 7.
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