[Alex Murphy]

Anyone who says Catholics don’t read the Bible is not telling the truth. We do. Practicing Catholics attend Mass every Sunday. At every Mass we hear a passage from the Old Testament, the Psalms, the New Testament and the Gospel. The readings are selected on a three-year cycle. That is all we are required to read....

There's a significant difference between hearing and reading....

[Beloved Levinite]

"There's a significant difference between hearing and reading...."

Further, I submit there is a significant difference between hearing and reading...and studying! We are instructed to "compare scripture with scripture." That is study.

[Mad Dawg]

There's a significant difference between hearing and reading....

There is indeed. But the oft-repeated charge is that we do not read the Bible. And it was that charge which was being addressed. If we are now prepared to drop that charge and move over to whether we "hear" or not, that's fine. But when the charge that we do not read is being addressed, what sense does it make suddenly to raise the distinction between reading and "hearing?"

Shoot and move again.

[Melian]

Jesus read scripture aloud to the people in the Temple. We are just following his tradition and example. We follow along in our missals.