From the way I read this official teaching of the church, catholics have to do what is taught in both Scripture and sacred Tradition. Is this incorrect?
Hence there exists a close connection and communication between sacred Tradition and sacred Scripture. For both of them, flowing from the same divine wellspring, in a certain way merge into a unity and tend toward the same end. For Sacred Scripture is the word of God inasmuch as it is consigned to writing under the inspiration of the divine Spirit, while sacred tradition takes the word of God entrusted by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit to the Apostles, and hands it on to their successors in its full purity, so that led by the light of the Spirit of truth, they may in proclaiming it preserve this word of God faithfully, explain it, and make it more widely known. Consequently it is not from Sacred Scripture alone that the Church draws her certainty about everything which has been revealed.
Therefore both sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture are to be accepted and venerated with the same sense of loyalty and reverence. Source: Dei Verbum, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Second Vatican Council 11-18-1965
ealgeone:
No your reading is basically correct. So yes Catholics understand revelation to be linked to the Person of Christ, who chose Apostles and sent them [Apostle means to be sent] and those the Faith is rooted in Apostolic Tradition [Tradition meaning to pass on what was received] and thus Apostolic Tradition has its source in Christ, thru the Apostles and comes to us via Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition [by which is affirmed in Creeds, Councils and Liturgy of the Church].
So all Doctrines/Dogmas have their ultimate source in The Trinity and Christ and come to us via Apostolic Tradition [Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition].
Abortion for example is not explicitly condemned in the Bible, however, in the Church Fathers and other Patristic Writings such as the Didache, we see a clear teaching against Abortion, so a Catholic dissident stating that the Bible never explicitly condemns abortion would be accurate. However, abortion is rejected explicitly via Sacred Tradition as can be seen in the direct condemnation of it in the Didache, which some scholars date was being written in the late 1st century AD.