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.without the Bible, Jesus certainly would not be a historical figure...He was a kid, born in Israel, a dissident who was executed by the Romans.....disappearing into history....It is through the Catholic Bible that you even know His name.

Finally a Catholic that affirms Scripture is essential for the preservation of the gospel message, while others exalt oral tradition so much that Scripture becomes almost superfluous, except to be abused as needed to try to support RC traditions against "Bible Christians." But of course, there simply was no "Catholic" Bible because the NT church simply was not Catholic, esp. Roman.

Which is basically a invisible church in Scripture, not being a church which looked to the street-level leader Peter as the first of a line of exalted supreme infallible popes in Rome;

over a class of clergy distinctively titled "priests" officiating at the Lord's "Supper" (or tasting) in turning bread and wine in the "real" (neoplatonic)but not bloody flesh and blood of Christ, and offering it as a sacrifice for sins and to be consumed in order to obtain spiritual and eternal life;

and with infant baptism rendering one good enough to be with God, with that basis thus usually requiring postmortem purifying torments to attain entrance into Heaven, and offering indulgence$ to obtain release from it;

and praying to created beings in Heaven, including the only believers in Heaven who are distinctively called "saints," esp. to an almost almighty sinless vestal virgin demigoddess highly exalted far above any other created being;

and either much relying on the sword of men for conformity to doctrine and or requiring implicit assent, or becoming an admixture of proabortion, prohomosexual public members as well as devout, while attacking conservative evangelicals, since the preeminence of Rome is primary.