The Catholic interpretation is perfectly clear to me. I just don't agree with it because it's telling me the Emperor has clothes when I can see clearly he doesn't.
As to your own ideas, I might have a comment if you present them in some systematic way
How about if you just explain why does the Holy Spirit have to "hear" things in order to tell you? One would think he would know already without having to hear it.
And this secret knowldge that is being passed on is precisely why John was so popualr with Gnostics.
Alex, I fully understand your indignation. My reaction to discoveries of this sort scadalized me as well until it became apparent that things were not exaclty as we learned in Sunday school.
What is there to explain? The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are persons. That’s what persons do, they talk and they hear. They don’t teach that in Sunday School?