If you don't know whose interpretation we should follow, then it doesn't do any good to wave the Bible around in the air.
-A8
Is there book or website that provides the Official Catholic Interpretation(r) of the Holy Scriptures, verse-by-verse? There must be one, because every time I quote the Bible I'm told that's only my interpretation of it. There must be a common, authorized Genuine Catholictm Study Bible or some such thing that all Catholics check "my private interpretation" against, to so easily dismiss it as wrong.
The problem here, in my personal experience, is that I've never had a Catholic provide for me a "this or that is the One Official Catholic Interpretation of the verse in question" answer ever. I'm beginning to think that such doesn't really exist. I'll go further than that, and say that this "that's your private interpetation" apologetic is a debating trick, a con game like Three-Card Monty, employed to keep opponents off-balance w/o ever really offering anything of substance in return.