Perhaps a most pivotal passage
of the Bible which divides
Catholic Christians from
Protestant and Pentecostal Christians
is the scripture where Christ
singles out Peter from the rest
of the Apostles for
special consideration and authority. That
Bible passage is in the Gospel
according to Matthew,
chapter 16, verse 18.
The Catholic Church teaches
that the first principle of
hermeneutics, the science of the translation
and interpretation
of the Bible, is the literal
meaning of the text.