You haven't "missed" anything. You are just experiencing the continual mockery and derision of all things Catholic that is one of the hallmarks of Free Republic.
Evangelical and fundamentalist Christians can claim all day long that "The Lord told me ____ " or "The Lord laid on my heart that ____" or "The Lord spoke to me last night and told me ____", and not a single brother in the Lord will question it.
However, if a Catholic says or posts words of someone who says "The Lord told me ____" or "The Lord's mother Mary told me ____", the anti-Catholic bigots here will come out in full force and splender to deride and scorn them.
Would anyone consider playing "Name games" with a respected Christian leader like Billy Graham, the way the folks here have already attacked Sister Lucia??? Certainly not.
But Catholics are fair game for the small minded bigots here awaiting any moment to make sport of the Catholic faith as well as holy Catholic individuals we hold dear (you should see them when there is a thread about Mother Teresa---it would make you hair curl.)
Oh, I see someone has already brought up Joan of Arc....how about the other triad of anti-Catholic curmudgeons' topics,
The Inquisition,
Galileo, and
The Crusades?"
nmh,
We know you mean well, but Please take your personal (mis)interpretation of scripture elsewhere. We have 2000 years of the teaching of Christ and proper interpretation of scripture under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and through the authority Christ granted His Church. We don't really need your own fallible personal interpretation of these various scriptural proof texts taken out of context. We know and understand their true context and their proper interpretation and we don't need the only-500-years-old-protestant-revolt-against-the-authority-Christ-gave-His-church-new-false-gospel-anti-Catholic-bigoted-interpretation.