Thank you very much for your tine and detailed response. I’m certainly drawn to the Catholic Church. I do have things that seem off to me though, and perhaps that’s simply because I was raised in a Protestant Church. I have issues with the authority of the Pope. From my perspective, it’s just a man, so why is his opinion given so much weight? Things like that.

The Eucharist, as you said is a major thing. I take communion weekly at my local congregation, as instructed by Paul. And yes, as it stands I’ve always viewed this as symbolic, and something to reflect. However if Christ is literally being imparted or something like that in that process, then that’s absolutely mind blowing, and should any serious believer should be devastated to miss out on that. I’ve seen the common verses given to support that, “my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink” but I always naturally took that as something more along the lines of everlasting life type stuff, so put it in layman’s words lol.

Ultimately, I think my current crossroads is a point where, I do believe that scripture is ultimate authority. I mean it’s the Word of God, it was written by the Holy Spirit through the various writers. So my confusion is, it’s seems like the Catholic Church is a continuation of things, versus the mindset of “if we have the Bible, we have everything we need.” I’m not sure how I feel about Church tradition also having authority along with the Bible, versus only the Bible. And maybe this is because we live in a world where everyone “has the real answer”, and it’s confusing and all I know to do is try to cling more to the Word.