There is no way around private interpretation.
Yes, there is a way around private interpretation. You submit to the authority of the pope. There are things (such as the death penalty, for example) that if I were to analyze the issue myself I would reach a different conclusion with pope Francis (or even John Paul 2 for that matter). I choose to put aside my own private analysis and submit to authority. It is not that difficult of a thing to do. Most people who have a boss at work have put aside their own opinions and does what the boss says to do. The pope is the boss of the Catholic Church.
A person has to interpret things and decide to follow the Vatican no matter what, or Catholic tradition - both of which are at odds with each other more clearly than ever.
You
think that they are at odds with each other, but you do not
know that they are at odds with each other. You may conclude that that the vatican is at odds with tradition, and I may conclude that the vatican is completely in line with catholic tradtion. What then? We can act like Protestants and each do as we please, or we can act like Catholics and submit to the authority of the pope.
And it is not Catholic to think that the living Magisterium can be at odds with Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. That is a protestant notion that has crept into the "tradtionalist" Catholic movement.
Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation - Dei verbum
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It is clear, therefore, that sacred tradition, Sacred Scripture and the teaching authority of the Church, in accord with God's most wise design, are so linked and joined together that one cannot stand without the others, and that all together and each in its own way under the action of the one Holy Spirit contribute effectively to the salvation of souls.
When it comes to the question of interventions in the prudential order, it could happen that some Magisterial documents might not be free from all deficiencies. Bishops and their advisors have not always taken into immediate consideration every aspect or the entire complexity of a question. But it would be contrary to the truth, if, proceeding from some particular cases, one were to conclude that the Church's Magisterium can be habitually mistaken in its prudential judgments, or that it does not enjoy divine assistance in the integral exercise of its mission.
If you are alive, there is no way around making a "private interpretation", which is a long way to say "choice". The implication seems to be that anything but blind obedience is bad.
If I were to come back to Catholicism, it's so divided and at war within itself - I dunno what a guy would do. Blind obedience to the Vatican? Go with the Trad rebels? The all claim to be the true faith.
There is no way around private interpretation, so it shouldn't be looked down upon.
You are demonstrating exactly why the "traditionalist" Catholic movement has been just as harmful to the Church as that of the "liberal" Catholics.
The pope is a unifying force within the Catholic Church. That is one reason why our Lord Jesus gave the keys of the kingdom to Peter and instituted the papacy.
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2. Wherefore we teach and declare that, by divine ordinance, the Roman Church possesses a pre-eminence of ordinary power over every other Church, and that this jurisdictional power of the Roman Pontiff is both episcopal and immediate. Both clergy and faithful, of whatever rite and dignity, both singly and collectively, are bound to submit to this power by the duty of hierarchical subordination and true obedience, and this not only in matters concerning faith and morals, but also in those which regard the discipline and government of the Church throughout the world.
3. In this way, by unity with the Roman Pontiff in communion and in profession of the same faith , the Church of Christ becomes one flock under one Supreme Shepherd [50].
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7. This gift of truth and never-failing faith was therefore divinely conferred on Peter and his successors in this See so that they might discharge their exalted office for the salvation of all, and so that the whole flock of Christ might be kept away by them from the poisonous food of error and be nourished with the sustenance of heavenly doctrine. Thus the tendency to schism is removed and the whole Church is preserved in unity, and, resting on its foundation, can stand firm against the gates of hell.
What we have now in the Church is that Protestantism is infiltrating it both from the "liberal" and the "traditionalist" Catholics, both of whom refuse to submit to the authority of the pope, only in different ways. Because of this refusal to submit to the pope, we have the divisions within the Church that you refer to. If everyone submitted to the authority of the pope, then we would be unified.
