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Let’s walk through a comment using the same the same method of interpretation to read that comment as the Self Alone proponents in the anti-Christian anti-Catholic crew use to interpret Scripture.

The comment to which I reply:
”The authority of the Catholic church is not universally accepted".

Step 1

First, you have to understand the ancient meaning of the word, “authority”

It is a contraction of the words, “author”, and “ittybitty”. It evolved into the use we accept today because most Caesars were short and what they wrote was law.

So we see the first portion of that comment means,

“The short author”

Step 2

That’s followed by “of the Catholic”. Of course, Catholic means “universal” so this portions means, ”of the universal” which due to being associated with a particular individual or type of individual (the short author) clearly means that we have to consider the word “author” as being a male gender noun.

”The short author of the universal . . . "

Step 3

Since “author” is not a specific author, it is informal and therefore means any carpenter, stone mason, craftsman, metal worker, or writer. Therefore, since a “universal” is a type of coupling, and since this is a male gender noun preceding a female gender noun, (according to the rule, "male and female made he them"), and associated with a size related noun, we know this is a metal worker because metal was carefully measured, giving us

"The short metal worker who cast the universal joint"

Step 4

Since "church" has to be informal to match "author", and author in this case is a male noun, "church" obviously is female which demands we use the less common but totally acceptable definition for the word "church" that means, “to perform a church service of thanksgiving (for a woman after childbirth)". Now the true meaning of the comment is becoming clear thanks to the application of the Self Alone interpretation method,

The short metal worker who cast the universal joint thankfully took his wife and newborn child to church . . .

Step 5

The Self Alone method tells us “universally” in this context means, “this universe and all similar universes”, due to the fact that the preceding use of "Catholic" in the same sentence, but modified by refering to a general class of individuals. Everyone knows that when such duplication of a noun occurs in a single sentence, each succeeding repetition refers to something smaller than the preceding use of the same word.

Therefore "Catholic" in the first instance being limited to a single type of joint or coupling, the second use of the word must mean something still more narrowly defined and more specific.

Rather than being the entire universe, then, and in keeping with the preceding usage and "male and female made he them", we know for sure that in the second instance "universal" applies to a small area, without a doubt an area which at the time would have been only the immediate area around the individual "author", or what we would today call a neighborhood.

Step 6

The beauty of the Self Alone method of interpretation is obvious now that we can, beyond the shadow of a doubt, properly interpret the comment to which I refer. We now know the real meaning of the comment as the author obviously intended it to be understood rather than the superficial meanings so many people are probably misled into believing.

Step 7, what the comment to which I reply really means:

“The short metal worker who cast the universal joint is thankful he could take his wife and newborn child to coming out party at the local church, but only invited people from his own neighborhood.”

Isn't it nice that someone shared with us the fact that a foundry worker with the means to throw a party is thankful that both wife and child are fine?