Do Catholics ever do any more bible study after they’ve been initially catechized?
It seems that POORLY and/or IMPROPER catechism gets the blame for those members who do not publicly toe the line taught by Rome.
That's just an excuse some Catholics use because they cannot handle the fact that there are people who know Catholic teaching and see how it doesn't line up with Scripture, and choose to go with Scripture instead. They cannot, or will not, accept that the problem is with the Catholic teaching itself. So instead they rationalize that the problem must be that people simply don't know what *proper* church teaching is. If they knew it *properly* then of course they couldn't help themselves and they'd be Catholic.
And most lay Catholics DO know what church teaching is on various subjects. They just choose to ignore it.
I had one elderly Catholic neighbor, committed Catholic, lots of kids, supported the church financially, etc, who was talking with me about homosexual marriage, which she supported, and abortion and said, "I know what the church says about abortions, BUT, no one has the right to tell someone what they can do with their own body."
And then there are all the Catholics I worked with who voted democrat, ignoring the abortion support, because "Democrats are for the poor*".
And yes, quotes in both cases.
Now I know that when you relate events like that from committed, practicing, active in their congregations Catholics, they'll blow it off, but the reality is, there are LOTS of Catholics like that out there. I grew up in a whole family of them which included a couple priests and a num, and heard it all.
FRomans may not like it but the reality is, THAT is where the Catholic church is and has been for decades.
And no, there's not much Bible teaching after Catechism. In my day, reading the Bible was very actively and strongly discouraged. We were told that we couldn't understand it because we were not *properly* trained, like in seminary, so if we had questions, we should ask the priest or nun and they'd tell us what the Bible meant. Not what it said. What they claim it meant.