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It was not fair of me to ask for you to supply quantitative information where it is almost impossible to provide. Perhaps, instead of beating around the bush, I should have simply stated that, in my opinion, it is probably a very small percentage of the "faithful" who really know and understand just what the Church really teaches, knows how to find out, and/or who really care. Thank you for your answers.

Most of us make the mistake of thinking our personal experience is indicative of the universe. Having said that, my personal experience as a RC (more than 50 years ago and probably not relative to today - though it might still be) is that I knew no one in my circle who read the Bible. Most of my Protestant friends did, and goaded me into it for one reason or another.

As for Bible knowledge from Bible readings in Church. You would have to go for years without missing a Mass to get through the New Testament alone. That is not a valid example.

You would have to go for years without missing a Mass to get through the New Testament alone.

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I believe 3 years is the accurate amount of time to hear the New Testament in its entirety preached from attending Mass. By and large, any Catholic who regularly attends Mass will hear a huge amount more of Scripture proclaimed than a non-Catholic Christian who regularly attends worship service.

No problem on the request for guesstimates,its good to review what people believe and how many know what they believe and things like that.

You did state in that post that you thought I was being hypocritical. I had responded to MR.PAYNO who had accused me of being a hypocrite and had cited a passage from papal encyclical. Personally I was in total agreement with the Pope and think the encyclical is a wonderful piece of work. I had no idea of what MR.PAYNO was talking about and probably took a quantum leap in trying to explain why I appreciated the Catholic Church.

Anyway I am not a hypocrite,I am Catholic,I believe what the Church teaches,I speak in accord with my beliefs and I act in concert with my words. My mind,my mouth and my body are in sync. My thoughts,words and deeds are one with the Church. I have integrity or cognitive-consonance.

As I said on other posts,I may have a lot of faults and flaws and may irritate a lot of people but I am not a hypocrite. Which leads me to insert a "shameless plug" for the Catholic Church. They have a written body of beliefs,the archives are replete with documents indicating how they determined those tenets, they are available for all to see and they can be used to clarify or straighten out those fellow Catholics who have gone off the path. And there are many,but if it is called to their attention and they argue it, I don't have to worry about convincing them of their error, I can show them where it is written and I know they know and have chosen to say or claim one thing and do or act in another way. They say they are Catholic and they are not and I let God sort it out because it seems to me they are hypocrites and I think Jesus was real clear on how He viewed them. Hope you can see my point and will agree that I,sara,am not a hypocrite.