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The left side of your mouth said ...just as the Catholic definition states. The right side of your mouth said I have yet to hear what the Catholic Church has to say. There's a rather severe consistency problem there.

Hmmmmm....I guess my statement should have read "I have yet to hear what the Catholics have to say.

I believe that somewhere way back (#385) someone pointed out the Catholic Church's definition of the inspired works of God from New Advent. That definition gave inspiration as ...Inspiration can be considered in God, who produces it; in man, who is its object; and in the text, which is its term. This encyclopedia goes on to explain:

inspiration is nothing else but the biblical text itself

Without it a book, even if it had been inspired by God, could not become canonical;

In other words, if we recognized right now an inspired work of God, it can't be considered inspired because the Church says its not. So yes, I have heard what the Catholic Church has to say on inspiration; without the Church whatever God has to say is rubbish. It also makes one wonder if the Church can deem something as inspired that God has not deemed.

Care to comment on the nuiances of the logic of the Catholic encyclopedia than on my terms?

I do not know if this will be satisfactory, but rather than debating our way through the Catholic Encyclopedia's explanations and/or logic, I would direct your attention to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which provided by the Church to explain Catholic Teaching on all matters of faith. Specifically,

II. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRADITION AND SACRED SCRIPTURE
One common source. . .
80 "Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together, and communicate one with the other. For both of them, flowing out from the same divine well-spring, come together in some fashion to form one thing, and move towards the same goal."⁴⁰ Each of them makes present and fruitful in the Church the mystery of Christ, who promised to remain with his own "always, to the close of the age".⁴¹
. . . two distinct modes of transmission
"Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit."⁴²
"And [Holy] Tradition transmits in its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. It transmits it to the successors of the apostles so that, enlightened by the Spirit of truth, they may faithfully preserve, expound and spread it abroad by their preaching."⁴³
82 As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence."⁴⁴

I sincerely hope this advances your understanding of Catholic teaching on the topic.

The entire segment of the Catechism excerpted here can be found at this link.