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Thank you for quoting the Catechism, OLD REGGIE.

The two claims here are not equivalent. On the one hand, we have someone floating three ideas:

1) The Bible doesn't mean what it says.
2) The Bible is not Trustworthy
3) Don't read the Bible yourself.

Furthermore this person insinuated that those false beliefs are a "popular Catholic teaching." This is of course false.

Now the quote from the Catechism which you referenced, (and quite rightly so, it's entirely germane to the subject at hand,) states that Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and the Magesterium work hand in hand for the Salvation of souls, and none of these three can stand alone. This means, among other things, that the Church cannot stand apart from the Scriptures.

The Catholic Church (Roman and Orthodox Catholicism) Canonized the Bible under the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit. To claim that the same Church teaches the Scriptures are untrustworthy is a contradiction in terms. (And I understand that you are not making that claim, by the way, I'm referring to comments by other participants in this conversation.)