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we Catholics who wrote the Scripture

You really don't want to go there, do you? The Gospels were written by some guys named Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Many of the epistles were writtne by the Apostle Paul, others by James, Peter, and Jude. Where are the Roman Catholic authors in that group (Peter doesn't count - he never went to Rome)

And the Old Testament: Moses, Daniel, many prophets, Solomon, etc...again, no Roman Catholics in that group either.

Go and study the history of the early Church, including how the canon of Scripture was actually fixed. My Latin bretheren and I disagree on where the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is to be found since the 11th century, they claiming those in communion with the Bishop of Rome constitute it, and I and all other Orthodox holding that the other four ancient Patriarchates and those in communion with them have maintained the faith once delivered to the saints and are indeed the Mystical Body of Christ. Nonetheless, using the word as it was used by St. Ignatius of Antioch, it was indeed he katholike ekklesia, which wrote the New Testament and codified the canon of Scripture.

Really, you should pick up Jaroslav Pelikan's history of the Church (don't worry, he was a Lutheran when he wrote it, though he converted to Holy Orthodoxy subsequently). Facts are facts, and while reading Holy Scripture is most edifying, you can't know the history of the Church after the portion of the lives of the Holy Apostles recorded in the Acts and the Epistles by reading Holy Scripture.