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“When a priest starts reading the Bible.”

Just because it’s on paper and their eyes go over it every day doesn’t mean they are paying attention.

I have a friend who works at the archdiocese and arranges for daily masses there. She is disgusted with some of the clergy who seem to have forgotten a lot of their education when they preside, some clergy who have never volunteered to do a mass for their co-workers in years of working there, and some who are downright surprised when she mentions Jesus in the context of conducting office business.
(Not everybody is like that. She works with some really excellent priests, too.)

I have no idea whether this story is true or not, but I don’t underestimate the potential for ordained priests to misunderstand or forget what they’re supposed to know and care about.

Just because it’s on paper and their eyes go over it every day doesn’t mean they are paying attention.

I'm going to agree, but with the stipulation that "they" refers to ALL SO CALLED CHRISTIANS. Insinuating that this quality exists solely within the clergy of the Catholic Church is ridiculous.

Half the Catholics I know haven't read the whole Bible. More than half the Protestants I know haven't. Now, to be fair, I currently know more Catholics than Protestants, and I haven't looked at the relative percentages, but the point here is that a large number of Christians barely gloss over their holy book, and many of those that do turn to cutesy little adaptations like The Message because they need it dumbed down.

I'm Anglican, which puts me roughly in the Catholic camp- a point I'll argue with Roman Catholics as often as they want- and I don't read the Bible every day. But when I do read it, I READ it. But that doesn't change the fact that even I have days where I can barely concentrate. So to imply that Catholics, Priests or otherwise, merely glance at the page while these blessed Protestants diligently take in the Holy Word of God is preposterous. Human failings are not limited to any denomination.