[pgkdan]

The Catholic church does not necessarily adhere to Scripture as their one source of authority. Too many traditions for that to happen.

Yes, and many of those traditions are hundreds of years older than the Bible. The Catholic Church was around for 400 years before the Canon of Athanasius was recognized as the New Testament.

[DennisR]

Yes, but the writings in both the Old and New Testaments were around a long time before the Catholic Church came into existence, right?