“Catholics don’t generally use the Bible to defend Catholic doctrine, as I have found repeatedly here. Occasionally they use it as a springboard but never build their arguments around its authority because they always come back to the Catholic”
That’s because the Catholic Church came before the gospels and Catholics compiled what you read in the Bible. Not much easier put than that.
The catholic "church" was created in 325 CE at Nicea
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
by the pagan Emperor Constantine.