[metmom]

There is no need to "interpret" the Church's teaching. The Church's teaching is distilled into the Catechism which is full of clear statements of what the Church believes to be the truth.

Which STILL needs to be interpreted.

For that matter, EVERYTHING you read you interpret from your worldview, which is different from everyone else on the planet.

One of the obvious things is that the printed word do3es not carry tone of voice and inflection and you have to decide what it is for the situation.

So is it *Are you kidding???*

Or *Are you kidding!*

Or *Are you kidding?!?!?!*

Is it sarcastic?

Incredulous?

Tired, as in *Not again?*

All that for three words.

And no, the CCC is not clear at all about a lot of things. If it is, then perhaps you could tell us whether there is salvation outside the Catholic church.

[Gamecock]

Well, there used to not be Salvation outside Rome. Until there was. Even for Muslims.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Are you kidding?

I don't believe that there is anything in the Catechism that corresponds to a sentence that has different meanings based on inflection.

Read Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwig Ott. You will see that the official teaching is clearly laid out, the justifications for it (including many citations from the Bible), the objections to the teaching with counterarguments, and the heresies that denied the teaching and why they were in error.

The vast majority of teachings in this book can be accepted by all Christians, especially those at the beginning dealing with the nature of God, Creation, Christ, Man, the Soul, etc.

Where there is open debate (e.g. alternate takes on the relationship between Free Will and God's Foreknowledge) the different possible alternatives are discussed along with their strengths and weaknesses.

There is no ambiguity and no need to interpret any moreso than there might be different interpretations of 2 + 2 = 4.