[Elsie]

"Stand fast and hold firm to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours" (2 Thess. 2:15).

Ha ha!

That was WRITTEN way before there were any CATHOLIC traditions to transmit!

[Brian Kopp DPM]

The ONLY traditions in the early Church were Catholic traditions.

A letter written by Ignatius of Antioch to Christians in Smyrna around 106 [-- only 70 some years after the Resurrection --] is the earliest surviving witness to the use of the term Catholic Church (Letter to the Smyrnaeans.) By Catholic Church Ignatius designated the universal church. Ignatius considered that certain heretics of his time, who disavowed that Jesus was a material being who actually suffered and died, saying instead that "he only seemed to suffer" (Smyrnaeans), were not really Christians. The term is also used in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in 155 and in the Muratorian fragment, about 177.

[Natural Law]

"That was WRITTEN way before there were any CATHOLIC traditions to transmit!"

In the beginning was the Word. The Word was revealed to us both in the written Scripture and through the Apostolic Tradition. In this way the tradition precedes Paul and his writings.