Well metmom and ansel, the question then is why would the YEC types here post comments like "Catholics have their services in Latin so the people don't understand what's going on during the service" and "Catholics never use the bible during mass" and "only Catholics pray to Mary", if they're well informed about other kinds of Christians? One freeper even claims his "devout Catholic mother-in-law" never read scripture her whole life until a protestant minister quoted it to her on her death bed. How could anyone with a basic understanding of other denominations make such blatant errors about Catholicism?
Either they never interact with Catholics to get even a basic understanding of other denominations, or they in fact do know Catholics read scripture every Sunday and deliberately choose to lie about it to advance their agenda that Catholics are "not bible believers"
Do you have any other explainations for it?
I never saw some of those comments.
Got a source for that one? “Catholics have their services in Latin so the people don’t understand what’s going on during the service”. The Catholic church switched from Latin to English decades ago, so I doubt that one.
HOWEVER, if you can provide evidence that other churches besides Catholics pray to Mary, by all means do so.
I don’t recall having Bibles in the pews in church when I was growing up, although there were Scripture readings in every mass. Maybe that has changed.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that there were Catholics who never cracked a Bible. It certainly wasn’t opened in our home even though we went to church weekly and for the holy days.