And I'm a faithful Catholic Christian....just NOT under the man-made authority of a Bishop of Rome.
The ideas and authority of the Apostles is OBJECTIVELY BEST known through their direct writing--unfiltered by 1500+ years of man-made-traditions--in what we call the New Testament of the Bible.
To be faithful to Apostolic authority and the Lord Jesus Christ, is to be faithful to the Bible, period.
total nonsense, if you are a Catholic, obey the church which Jesus Christ gave authority to. The Cathoic church, alone, has the authority to interpret, explain, and impose the various passages from the bible. After all, it was the Catholic church which compiled, translated, edited, copied, preserved, and actually saved the bible for us. They certainly wouldn't have done so to a book which proved them wrong...they did so to a book which we follow to the letter and which supports Catholic theology to a "T". You might not support Catholicism, but you can in no way, deny her authority nor her faithfulness....