I believe it is critical that those of us who believe in the Bible as the inspired Word of God always be willing in humility to examine our understanding and interpretation of it. We need to be sure we are truly following what God says rather than longstanding cultural traditions or what others have told us God says. We need to keep a Berean spirit of examining the Scriptures to see whether these things are so.
P.S. When I talk about "serious Bible scholars," I am NOT talking about Jesus Seminar freaks.
Don't worry. Us Catholics have been doing just fine since the day Christ founded our Church (see: Matthew, Gospel of) in interpreting and examining the Scriptures. It's the Johnny Come Lately Protestants who decided to start mucking about and creating their own new traditions (is the validity of a tradition judged solely by its age or its grounding in spiritual truth combined with logic?) such as women priests, gay priests, and a whole mess of other theological garbage.