She also has wigs and flies away...SERIOUS scriptural scholars believe the woman is Israel
So, by default, Catholics aren't serious scriptural scholars, in your opinion. But that doesn't take into account that right before the beginning of chapter 12, the last verse of chapter 11 mentions how the "temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple, and there were lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake, and great hail." Then the woman is mentioned, who is the ark of the new testament.