"but when the Scripture is silent, as is this case, the Tradition speaks just as forcefully"
Have any of your traditions been proven to be wrong, or should I say have they been changed because of their error?
Mark 7:7-9
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
(KJV)
Some traditions are just that, traditions, and they change. The manner in which the Holy Communion is received, for example, has changed several times. The Church distinguishes between the Holy Tradition that is a part of divine revelation and as such incroporated in the Christian dogma, and various disciplinary matters that can and sometimes should change.
Since Apostolic time, the capital-T Tradition has been fixed as writings of the Fathers, hymnody and art. But originally, all Revelation was oral.