All of human history is only properly understood through the lens of Christ, not in some abstract manner, but directly. Not only does St. Paul not make any sense without oblique reference to Christ but he doesn't make sense without direct reference to what Jesus Christ said and did. In that sense, St. Paul doesn't explain Christ, Christ explains St. Paul.
And from that you got:
Wow Catholics really hate Paul, the man God assigned to be the primary teacher to the NT church.
Are you kidding me?! You believe St. Paul stands on his own and that Christ isn't the necessary lens through which everything must be understood? You can make sense of St. Paul without Christ?
It's called Paulianity (aka Reformed "Christianity"), where Christ is a second fiddle—God's errands boy—and Paul reigns supreme (along with Isiah); the Holy Spirit is the errands boy of the errands boy, a distant third.