You're right, all baptized Christians are Catholic and the church does claim that whatever they say pertains to ALL Christians.....The problem with the Protestants was that they decided, when they "tested"(by what new standards I don't know) the "spirits"...they went off on their own and decided that they knew better than more than a thousand years of learned church fathers who had studied and interpreted, with the authority of Christ, what scripture taught and meant. Suddenly there were a thousand different "truths" being proposed to people who sadly were led astray.
The Catholic church welcomes all of you back whenever you realize that they were right in the first place....No, you can't make up your own truths, no, you can't deny reality, no, none of us are allowed to interpret the Bible as we see best describes what we think is fact.
The disciples had read the OT and understood the prophecy of the coming Messiah. They recognized Jesus as such.
Mary had read the OT and recognized the prophecy.
The Bereans searched the Scriptures.
So, yes....we can read the Word and understand it ourselves.
If one keeps the Word in context, understand the original languages, one can understand the Word.
Remember, we have the Holy Spirit guiding us as we study.
So is this you admitting you were wrong to say we should “mind our own business” concerning the issue of Fatima? Don’t dodge the question, please.
I’ll bet you read that somewhere and now parrot it when you can without ever either researching or examining its truthfulness.