[Anthem]

I don't get your protest. My point echoes the lead on your aticle, to wit:

One of the great battle cries of the Protestant Reformation was “sola scriptura!” It seemed to many that the problem with the Catholic Church over the centuries was that it had added all sorts of practices, customs and doctrines. [emphasis added]

[Salvation]

So I am assuming that you support the Bible only?

The nest two paragraphs continue to point to Holy Tradition.

** The “Reformers” read Jesus’ critique of the Pharisees’ traditions in this Sunday’s Gospel and thought they’d recognized the same pharisaical approach in the Church of their day. The solution, it seemed, was simple: Let’s purify the Church by ditching all these traditions and keep the Bible alone.

But if we read this portion of the Bible closely, the Lord is not telling us that tradition is a dirty word. His Apostle Paul, in fact, tells us in 2 Thessalonians 2:15 to “hold fast to the traditions you received from us, either by our word or by letter.”**

How do you interpret Paul's words then? What traiditon to you 'hold fast' to?

[Salvation]

Another thing -- there is much scripture that points to tradition; for example, in today's Gospel where Christ read from the Old Testament scroll (Yes, it was a tradition.) yet He was rejected in his home town.