It's hard to separate the tradition that is based on a WITNESS, from those that are not.
Empirical reality that went again the Church's teaching, could get a person KILLED!
Empirical reality that went again the Church's teaching, could get a person KILLED!
Empirical reality that went against the Protestant Church's teaching could get a person killed too. It means nothing. People are sinners, and they do horrible things when their worldviews are threatened. But, none of this has anything to do with tradition in matters of history. Nobody has ever been killed, so far as I know, for suggesting that St. Matthew didn't write the Gospel that bears his name. And more than Catholics accept traditional associations regarding people in the Bible.