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The main points of the Protestant Reformation were in large part embraced by the changes to the Roman Catholic church after the Vatican II council.
There are still some exceptions: female clergy being one of the biggest. Married clergy is still an issue, although becoming less so - deacons can be married, and if a priest is married before he is ordained, he stays married. Also, Ukrainian (and other) Catholic priests can marry, or at least be married at their ordinations.
Generally, Protestants place more authority on Scripture than Roman Catholics, and much less on the Church Fathers (like Aquinas, or Augustine). Protestants see Mary as Jesus' mom; a special lady, but not much more. They place less importance (in general) on the Eucharist, and most denominations do not understand the "sacrificial" nature (the amanuensis of Christ's crucifixion), which is why their leaders are ministers or pastors, and not priests.
These things very quite a bit by denomination. Anglicans are not really Protestant, and are about 98% the same as Roman Catholics. However, you can go pretty far the other way into denominations far removed from Roman Catholic ideas. It is hard to paint them all with one broad brush - the things above are sort of an average only.
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