Does the Holy Spirit speak directly and only to you? Why would He not speak to others, as well? Not sarcasm, an honest question.
I will never understand the leaps in thinking that Catholics take out of one simple statement.
What on earth possessed you to even think that I would claim the Holy Spirit spoke only to me?
How was that implied in what I said?
And yes, the Holy has and will continue to speak directly to me, usually through the Word, but sometimes just in knowing what to do in a situation that demands a response that I would not on my own, know what to do. I have also been led to pray for someone, not knowing what their situation was, only to find out later that at that very moment, they were dealing with something that needed prayer, sometimes the very thing I felt prompted to pray for.
You wanna direct this question to some of your popes from the past?
Has it anything to do with catechism classes??