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and have been told many times by Evangelical Christians that Catholics are not Christians but kind of a cult instead(not you, but if you could you explain that one to me, I'd be most interested).

This is probably a reference to (a) Mary and (b) saints. Pretty much everything Catholicism teaches about Mary (that she was a virgin, that she was assumed directly into Heaven, that she can intercede with God on our behalf) and about saints (intercession again) is completely unsupported by the Bible itself. It all comes from non-Bible sources, almost certainly syncretisation of existing religious beliefs -- a process which continues today, if you believe Eco's essay on Catholicism and Candomble in South America (from Faith In Fakes).

Peter