[RnMomof7]

No. that assumes the preachers were capable and desirous of knowing what the Vatican said.

1) The Catholic church has never taught the bible in a direct systematic verse by verse chapter by chapter way ..there is NO official Commentary on scripture other than the ones they need to prove their doctrine..so maybe a hundred verses or so ..thats it..

2)If the catholic priests, catholic teachers and catholic theologians have no interest in the teachings of the magistrum I would say they are their own popes and the Vatican is useless ...and so Catholics will never know what the official position of scripture the church holds

[Mad Dawg]

To (1) So the ground shifts. Hermeneutic is a word of too much imprecision to mean a verse by verse commentary. Therefor this objection is invalid because I was talking about hermeneutics, not verse by verse commentaries.

To (2) I did not say NO priests, teachers of theologians had the ability or desire to follow the Magisterium.

What prompted this little eddy in the stream was

I heard some terrible hermeneutics in my days as a catholic . And so have I. I cringe sometimes.

Neither of you said, and I am confident MarkBsnr did not mean that he had heard NOTHING but terrible hermeneutics.

This little clashing of blades has little substantive to it.