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.