“I know you find it hard to believe one of your perfect Catholic Church’s did not encourage Bible reading, but it’s true !
No it’s not true. It’s a scabby sulfurous lie.”
William Tyndale might disagree with you...
The modern Catholic Church may encourage lay reading of scripture, but there was a time they were not quite so supportive.
Tyndale’s bible was horribly mistranslated, and he was captured and killed (1536) by the then-protestant (1534) Henry VIII.