The Watch Tower insists that its publications are needed to properly interpret the Bible.
Of course, they’ve been consistently wrong about when Christ will come again.
So, while I would never compare the Caholic Church to the Jehovh’s witnesses in any shape, form, or fashion, I do have to wonder what, in principle, is the difference between the two stances?
Christ gave the power to bind and loose to Peter and the Apostles, who passed that power on to their successors. This is the essential difference.
Alexander Hislop’s “The Two Babylons” is an interesting read on Euhemerism and the parallels of 7th century Roman Catholicism to the Babylonian worship of Nimrod.
The RCC has many true and outstanding doctrines, but most were developed prior to Gregory I. The more extrabiblical and half-pagan doctrines appear to have taken hold after Gregory.