Amazing isn’t it? The Catholic distortion of scripture is nothing less then blasphemy. To have to resort to that sort of distortion in an effort to support the Catholic religion speaks volumes.
No, it is not an astonishment, for it has been done before... The whole bit comes right from the Pharisees; who, in their hubris, thought to trump the tradition of Moses with their own traditions. They claimed the authority to even bisect sentences to draw out the 'true' meaning of Torah, even causing their interpretation to be the full and exact opposite of what the sentence said in full.
It is the very definition of wickedness: Twisting the scriptures to obtain a desired result. It is how one gets to subject matter like the OP.