I do want to clarify one thing. Always Catholics read the Bible in the context of Church teaching. Part of that teaching involves schools of Biblical hermeneutics. If you are familiar with the Jesus Seminer that would be an example of a use of a type of Biblical hermeneutics which Catholics may not use. Another example would be the whole modernist school of exegesis that arose from Kantian philosophy and which was expressed by the 19th century German school of Higher Criticism in the writings of such theologians as Schleiermacher.
Bottom line if the Church has spoken the faithful must submit to what the Church has stated is official teaching binding on the faithful. If she has not spoken and my view does not contradict the broader teaching of the Church I am free to interpret for myself.
Which is totally backwards. It puts the wrong thing in authority and makes the wrong thing subservient.
Scripture should be read and interpreted in context with itself.
If Scripture appears to contradict itself, then further study needs to be done with it to determine the actual meaning.
The Word of God is Truth. Putting it in second place to anything opens one up to error.
Only truth can be in authority and can be used as authority.