An honest Catholic would ADD...
... must acknowledge that Catholics do indeed derive their teaching from Scripture and a whole lot of OTHER writings.
... must acknowledge that Catholics do indeed derive their teaching from Scripture and a whole lot of OTHER writings.
I do so without hesitation but none of these contradict Scripture. But the truth is that Protestants do the same thing. While they might claim that they believe in sola Scriptura they actually impose upon it a hermeneutic that they derived from the the early Reformers. Protestants are just as bound to their own tradition as Catholics.