hehe
Yes, the FR Religion Forum is mostly Catholic spam bandwidthwise.
But a few things I’ve learned:
No one speaks for the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church takes definitive stands on all sorts of issues, but no one can say exactly what those stands are.
and
Anyone Catholic who disagrees with any particular Catholic FReeper’s assertions is poorly catechized.
Teaching authority in the Church is vested in the Pope and the Bishops teaching in union with him. That means it's *not* vested in any definitive sense in an individual bishop, and still less in an individual priest, etc. Seems easy enough to me.
The Catechism, available online, is an authoritative, albeit not absolutely infallible, statement of Catholic belief. That again seems to be quite straightforward.