The legislature thinks reading the Bible in schools will combat violence. The bishops say that’s a nice thought, but that simply reading the Bible, without any instruction about what’s being read, is unlikely to help with that goal. And that if there is “teaching” being done, in addition to simply reading from the Bible, that is religious instruction which is not within the purview of the state. They say that religious instruction is the right and duty of parents, to be accomplished with the assistance of the parents’ chosen religious community.
OF COURSE Salvadoran Catholics have a perfectly good Spanish Bible (a number of versions) available to them. I own one, myself, “Latinoamerica, Edicion Pastoral.” Half the people in our Spanish charismatic prayer/Bible study group are Salvadoran. They know their Bible quite well.
**OF COURSE Salvadoran Catholics have a perfectly good Spanish Bible (a number of versions) available to them. I own one, myself, “Latinoamerica, Edicion Pastoral.” Half the people in our Spanish charismatic prayer/Bible study group are Salvadoran. They know their Bible quite well.**
Thanks so much — and a lot of other posters thank you too.