Catholic Bigots please "minister" somewhere else!
Catholic ping? do Catholics read the Bible, much lest the Old Testament??
What a scurrilous, narrow minded and thoughtless comment. I'll bet my good Catholic wife spends twice as much time reading the Old Testament as you do watching your TV.
Regards,
Lurking'
Great. With Christianity under attack from every quarter, this is exactly what we need: Ignorant comments from people who regurgitate what their equally ignorant Baptist preachers spew.
Some of the finest Bible commentaries written come from Catholic priests and lay-people. As I protestant, I enjoy reading their work just as much as I do that of other protestants.
Good rule of thumb: Think before you post.
The Catholic Church compiled the Bible. Were it not for the Catholic Church, you wouldn't have a Bible to read.
aspiring.hillbilly wrote:
Catholic ping? do Catholics read the Bible, much lest the Old Testament??
Where did the "Table of Contents" for the Bible come from? That is, How do you know which books belong in the Bible?
Answer: The Catholic Church.
This is a really important question. If all you believe is the Bible, how do you know what should be in it? Look at what Martin Luther tried to do with books and passages with which he disagreed.
Go have a drink.
The Deconary in my hometown (with six parishes, a cloistered Monestary, and an all-girls Catholic college in the area), offers dozens of Bible-reading groups, including those for single fathers, single mothers, parents without partners, college students, graduate students, young married couples, retired couples, widows and widowers, five different groups for teens, five groups for middle school students, plus one ore more at each parish.
Not since The Epistle Edict of Ignatius to the Magnesians, when Jews were declared to be "children of perdition" and Christ killers.
Catholic Bigots please "minister" somewhere else!
Based on my stone age experience in Catholic boarding school, the Bible wasn't everyday text, but that was then. Now, I'm sure things are very different.
(Pronounced eye roll.)
Now we get attacked by other Christians. Bad enough to have the media, muslims and the rest of the world against us. Funny how much anti-Catholic bias there is in this country.
aspiring.hillbilly off topic Catholic bashing Christian Crusader of ignorance
-would it be bizzare to suggest you may be booted soon?
Since when have us "good" Protestants come out with a movie as realistic as "The Passion"?
The Catholic Church no longer discourages parishioners from reading the Bible, as it once did.
I haven't read this entire thread, but from the beginning of it it appears that there are a bunch of fuming idiots on here who didn't even undersatand your question, and have run off at the mouth (or keyboard) accusing you of being anti-Catholic.
In fact, Catholics were at one time enjoined from reading the Bible. My wife was once castigated by a vile old nun for asking, in Catechism class, if they could be allowed to read the Bible. What she was told at that time was that "the Bible is difficult to undersatand, and we need the Priests to interpret it for us".
I thought that had remained the case, until I talked with a Catholic cow orker about it, who was amazed to hear my wife's story and told me (she is about 20 years younger than my wife) that if there had been such a prohibition, it was before her time, and that the Bible is read in the Church today, and they study it in Sunday school and in Bible classes like the rest of the denominations.
(Won't change my wife's mind anyway, though; she quit the Church at age 14 when she went to confession and tried to confess having abused her dog, and the priest told her that wasn't a sin, and she's never gone back.)
I should add the disclaimer that my wife is from Commuchusetts, so in all probability Catholics there are agents of Satan just like the rest of the population - but it's got nothing to do with their Catholicism.