Catholics on Calvinists

So I'm sitting in Elli's hospital room, puttering around on the computer (waiting for friends to write back about helping with the other kids, actually), and decided to Google "Calvinists." I found this fascinating comment about the origin of the NT and the foundation of the Church on a Catholic discussion board. As a Protestant, I've never heard a position like this. It was so striking in its differentness that I had to share it.

If the Apostles had taught Calvinist principles, the Catholic Church would be teaching them.

The Apostles didn't teach them, so neither does the Church. The Church teaches what the Apostles taught before, during, and after the NT was written. Period.

Calvinism is a 16th century interpretation of the NT that was never seen by any Christian before him.

All Protestant denominations result from a different interpretation of the same, 66-book cut version of the Bible. Calvinism is no exception.

The Catholic Church did not come out of the Bible; rather, the Bible came out of the Church. Any Bible-based church is not the one Christ founded. The Church founded by Christ wrote the NT and formed the Bible when she was nearly 400 years old. The New Testament is based on the Church.

My Protestant ears automatically respond "Doesn't that put the cart before the horse?" But I have learned not to make snap judgments and dismiss things out of hand. I'm going to think about this one.