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Parishes all over the world now offer Bible study and study of the documents and teachings by the Church.

You are correct in much of that post that too many Catholics are ignorant of the hows and whys of their faith.

Some have no other desire than to accept it like a child, some are lured away when confronted with distortions they haven’t the knowledge to counteract, and some take action, reading and learning and offering what they know on places such as this.

This is not the first instance the Church has been prodded by outside forces and as it has always done, she takes what is useful to her service and the commission given her by Jesus to feed His sheep.

"You are correct in much of that post that too many Catholics are ignorant of the hows and whys of their faith."

That does not extrapolate to the Protestant assertion that all or even most Catholics are ignorant of Scripture. I and my seven siblings were the recipients of Catholic education of which Scripture and the Catechism were in important part of the curriculum. The nuns and brothers who taught us put even more importance on it than on the 3Rs. My children were also so educated. I haven't heard anyone denigrate the success of Catholic education on secular subjects and can't understand why there is not a similar admission on religion.

Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear sister in Christ!

Some have no other desire than to accept it like a child, some are lured away when confronted with distortions they haven’t the knowledge to counteract, and some take action, reading and learning and offering what they know on places such as this.

That brings to mind the parable of the sower:

Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth [it] not, then cometh the wicked [one], and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth [it]; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. - Matthew 13:18-23

God's Name is I AM.