Perpetuating a lie doesn't make it right or for that matter gain you any debating points in Heaven. The Church does not teach that tradition supersedes written Scripture, but compliments it since the entire Revealed Word is sacred. To deny that to oneself is a form of spiritual suicide.
The Church does however teach that there is a hierarchy to Scripture in which the actual spoken Words of Christ and His examples are at the core of His teachings. I do appreciate how disturbing that can be to Protestants who pour through the Old and New Testaments in search of a verse or two, that when taken out of context, appear to support some heresy or Reformist dogma. I just don't buy it.
You want to try actually answering the questions next time? You totally skipped any reference to them.
“Why don’t Catholics then pray as Jesus instructed - to the Father? Where did Jesus instruct to pray to dead people? His mother? Where are His instructions about holy water?
Peter himself called Paul’s writings *Scripture*. Is Peter wrong? “