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your attempts to portray a couple of sheets of paper as “the Bible

Can you not defend your position without putting words in my mouth? I never said a missal was a Bible. I said missals contain scripture. A few sheets of paper? Readings for 1 month to 3 years, depending on the missal(ette) is more than a "few sheets of paper." That's quite some disinformation from someone who prides himself on fact!

the people posting to me that the bibles were right there in the holders behind the pews was wrong

That may be. I'm not responsible for what other people post. The fact is, there are scriptures in the pew in most Catholic parishes, unlike most nonCatholic churches I've been in, where there is no scripture in ANY hard copy form in pew backs. Only hymnals, which may contain some scriptures. I racked my brain to think of hardcopy scriptures I've seen in nonCatholic Churches. Can't recall a single church with a complete Bible in the pew. The only thing I can remember is sometimes receiving a bulletin as I walked into the service. And inside the bulletin would be some scripture relevant to the pastor's sermon topic that day. It may be for reading after church. Or following along as the pastor read. Or for reading aloud as a congregation. You were saying something about "a couple sheets of paper?"

Attempting to change the subject in post after post of your narratives is not useful either

Challenging your spin is not change of subject, LOL. Although your reference to "listening to a sermon" certainly is. I didn't speak about sermons at all. I spoke of proclaiming/reading the Word during Mass. You know, formal reading of Sacred Scripture during public communal worship by a priest or lector while folks in the pews LISTEN to Scripture being proclaimed instead of reading along in a Bible provided in the back of the pew.

You singled out Catholics for a lack of Bibles in the pews but have given nonCatholic churches without them a free pass. Call that changing the subject if you like. I call it hypocrisy.