John Ankerberg teaches on this topic. This is some of the facts he has discovered....
God Bless!Roman Catholic Justification
Roman Catholic teaching on justification places more emphasis on works, sacraments and obeying the law than on personal faith. In fact, Catholics are condemned if they believe they are justified by faith alone. Canon 9 of the Council of Trent states: "If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone, meaning that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to obtain the grace of justification...let him be anathema." The Catholic Church teaches that the grace of justification comes, not through faith but through the sacraments, beginning with baptism. From paragraph 1992 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church we read: "Justification is conferred in Baptism, the sacrament of faith. It conforms us to the righteousness of God, who makes us inwardly just by the power of his mercy." Paragraph 2027 teaches Catholics that they can merit the unmerited favor of God: "Moved by the Holy Spirit, we can merit for ourselves and for others all the graces needed to attain eternal life."
The Catechism of the Catholic Church opposes God’s Word by teaching justification:
1) is not by faith, but is obtained without personal faith through baptism (1992)
2) is not entirely the work of God, but a cooperative work between God and man (1993)
3) is not permanent, but can be lost by sin and regained through sacraments (1446)
4) is not different from sanctification, but includes it (2019)
5) is not a legal declaration by God, but conforms us to the righteousness of God (2020)
