Anybody Catholic can answer a question for me?

I just became Catholic I'm 12 years old and my answer is. Distinctive Roman Catholic beliefs include the special authority of the pope, the ability of saints to intercede on behalf of believers the concept of Purgatory as a place of afterlife purification before entering Heaven and the doctrine of transubstantiation that is, that the bread used in the Eucharist becomes the true body of Christ when blessed by a priest.