“Please do not think that I am a being mean spirited, but Low Information Catholic (LIC) is exactly the way the Catholic Church wants it congregation.
If you are really interested, read Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
The Catholic Church is a house divided. Evil has wormed its way in, and although it cannot win in the long run, it is causing a great deal of harm.
Just as there are all too many liberals in the Republican Party, so there are in the Church. Conservatives are present and oppose the libtards both in party and in the Church.
“The “dark ages” were so dark because the Catholic Church would not let its people read the Bible or translate the Bible into the native languages.”
Well, now, that just isn’t so. As a matter of fact, if you go to Mass every day for three years, you will hear the entire Bible read aloud.
The reason people didn’t read the Bible is because people couldn’t read.
It has now been demonstrated that discarding the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew was a ghastly mistake.
“The fact that the last popes have put their own revelation above God (e.g. Pope Francis new revelation concerning sodomites)”
1. Pope Francis announced no new revelation.
2. What Pope Francis announced was his own opinion, which any and every Catholic is free to contradict.
3. Pope Francis did not say what has been reported in the evilstream media.
4. I don’t think you can point to a similar action by Pope Benedict.
“and no-one is allowed to speak out against”
Catholics are quite free to criticize what Pope Francis said. Of course, it would only make sense to criticize what he actually said, and not what the depraved media slugs invented.
“this is a huge sign to, “...come out of her my people and be not a partaker of her plagues...” (Rev. 18:4)”
Historical perspective is our friend.
Why?
As a matter of fact, i think (as a former RC lector) this is another parroted dubious claim. There is no official statement, but based on one priest's count, going to daily mass would result in hearing 13.5 % of the OT (w/o Psalms) and and 71.5 % of the NT being read during the Sundays & Weekdays cycle. Alex calculates this to be only 12.7% of the entire Bible (excluding Psalms) being heard by a weekly-Mass-attending Catholic.
In response to your common "Mass every day for three years, you will hear the entire Bible" assertion, a Catholic at Catholic Answers (http://forums.catholic.com/showpost.php?p=1063633&postcount=9) finds,
The readings for Sunday Mass are repeated every three years. The reading for Weekday Mass are repeated every two years. The following table, based on my own calculations (and therefore likely not entirely error-free), will give you an idea of about what percentage of the Bible, Testament, or each individual book of the Bible, you might hear read at Mass over the course of any three-year period, based on the number of verses read. (Note: All optional Mass readings were included. Also, a verse was counted even if only part of verse is used.)
Book(s) (verses) . . . . . . Sundays only . . Sundays & Weekdays
Entire Bible (35478). . . . . . 14% (5035) . . . 30% (10722)
Old Testament (27524) . . . 6% (1663) . . . . 18% (4830)
Book(s) (verses) . . . . . . . . . Sundays only . . Sundays & Weekdays
New Testament (7954) . . . . . . 42% (3372) . . . . 74% (5892)
And it is hard to hear the entire bible when it seems even in the weekly Sundays & Weekdays cycle Obadiah doesn't get a single reading, and only 1% of 1 Chronicles and 3% of 2 Chronicles, 5% of Leviticus and Lamentations, and 6% of Numbers and Proverbs, and 7% of Joshua and 8% of Ezra and Job (just in the under 10% category) are read.
Moreover, some readings are partial verses, while much of the amount of Scripture RCs are said to hear in mass is redundancy, with some even including "Amen" or like brief statements in their calculations.
In addition, while never universally banning personal Bible reading by the laity, or never printing some in the vernacular, Rome certainly hindered it during much of her history, while in modern times teaching liberal revisionism via her sanctioned Bible helps for decades.