Your testimony is one of the reasons Rome doesn't want its members to read the Word.
It is the testimony of many of the former Roman Catholics on these threads and those I know in real life.
During my entire time in Catechism class, we never once read directly from the bible, we always read from the workbooks provided by the Archdiocese. When I began to ask about purgatory and transubstantiation and teachers couldn’t show where in the bible it was, that’s when I began to question. I would really love to sit down with my Catholic friends and ask them if they truly, really believe that the Wafer and wine are truly changed into the literal body and blood of Christ. I would venture to say that a large majority of them would say no. If that’s the case, then they really shouldn’t be Catholic.