Confession

[FaithT]

Protestants say that the way to get to heaven is to repent and obey. To confess our sins directly to Jesus. And they don’t believe in Purgatory either. So, if we as Catholics confess directly to Jesus and not through a priest and we die, will we not go to heaven?

 

[fide]

If, by the supernatural grace of God, you believe that the Catholic Church was established and formed by Jesus Christ Himself, and furthermore then He and the Holy Spirit remained in the Church, revealing eternal Truth to humanity through the Church - but then, seeking an easier way, you prefer the teachings of some in protestantism - then what will you say to Him on the Day of Judgment?

The Catechism clarifies this:

“Outside the Church there is no salvation”

CCC 846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?<Cf. Cyprian, Ep. 73.21: PL 3, 1169; De unit.: PL 4, 509-536> Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:
Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.<LG 14; cf. Mk 16:16; Jn 3:5>

If God gave you the Truth, you are responsible to guard and treasure it, and live by it. If you have doubts, you must resolve those doubts and can, by the Holy Spirit, resolve them. Truth may not seem easy, but when the alternative is falsity, it is the only way.