Which is why the Catholic church proclaims that both scripture and tradition are equally valid and one cannot be properly understood without the other.
Presumably that would account for your distaste for sanctimony.
It does not, however, account for the RC contention for doctrine from tradition not contained in scripture.
The fact is, we have little problem understanding the scripture alone...But when you stick unbiblical, anti-biblical so called tradition on equal footing, of course the bible makes no sense...
You have to twist, pervert, deny and add to the scriptures to get even parts of them to line up with your made up tradition...
I assume that's why you guys don't bother with the majority of scripture...It would take an army of scripture perverters to change the entire bible and keep it readable, even amongst yourselves...