>> I too am a Catholic. <<
No, you’re not. You just think you are. Or (hopefully) you’ve gravely misrepresented yourself. I know you’ll lump me as just one of those who doesn’t mind offending you, but I’m warning you, not delighting in bashing you. Catholics may not read the bible fundamentally, and some may not read certain parts of the Old Testament literally, but the Catholic Church does absolutely hold the inerrancy of the scripture, as well as the infallibility of the magisterium which was responsible for the canon process.
>> One’s relationship with God is direct and personal without ritual or priests, bishops, and councils. <<
That you would place “ritual,” priests and councils as alternative to a direct, personal relationship with God seems as un-Catholic as you can get. Yes, the relationship must be personal and direct, but the sacraments (which are rites, after all) are means to such a relationship, and priests are the required instruments of such grace!
I’m positively baffled as to why you would call yourself Catholic.
I agree wholeheartedly. The NT is very clear that the Apostles were commissioned to do what others cannot do and that it is an imperative prt of the life in the Church to acknowledge the special role of the priesthood in dispensation of God's mysteria.
Sacraments are not ordinary "rituals," although their length and form is a human product based on the Holy Tradition. The life of an Orthodox/Cathllic Christian is the life of sacraments. We can not have our own private "catholic" faith.