text: Trid...it doesn't matter if they're Catholic. The theological disposition of NT scholars doesn't (or rather, shouldn't) factor in to analysis of the texts. Whether Paul authored a letter may be determined by scrutiny of syntax and other stylistic features, vocabulary, historical clues within the text, theological disposition, and other data intrinsic to the texts, as well as external, corroborative evidence. The scholarly consensus on the Pauline epistles is so accepted that John P. Meier, the Catholic favorite of historical Jesus scholars, refers in "A Marginal Jew" to the "authentic and pseudonymous" Pauline Epistles.
  
  That's not to say there's agreement on the pseudepigraphic (non-authentic) letters. They're still DISPUTED. The consensus lies in acceptance of seven of the epistles as authentic. They are, in chronological order:
  
  1 Thessalonians
  Galatians
  1 Corinthians
  2 Corinthians
  Philemon
  Philippians
  Romans