[papertyger]

You're really grasping there. Particularly since Catholicism discourages parishioners from reading Scripture themselves and tell them to trust Church tradition.

How perfectly ironic! Catholic source, please?

[Old Yeller]

You're really grasping there. Particularly since Catholicism discourages parishioners from reading Scripture themselves and tell them to trust Church tradition.

How perfectly ironic! Catholic source, please?

Yes. They encourage the 5 non-canonical books that were added to the Bible.

[Elsie]

As long as they agree John 3:16 means the moon is made of green cheese, they'll all swear to it, and insult your faith for not agreeing.

REALLY?

How perfectly ironic! Catholic source, please?

[metmom]

Catholics prohibited from owning Scripture

COUNCIL OF TOULOUSE - 1229 A.D Canon 14. We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament; unless anyone from motive of devotion should wish to have the Psalter or the Breviary for divine offices or the hours of the blessed Virgin; but we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books.

Source: Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, Edited with an introduction by Edward Peters, Scolar Press, London, copyright 1980 by Edward Peters, ISBN 0-85967-621-8, pp. 194-195, citing S. R. Maitland, Facts and Documents [illustrative of the history, doctrine and rites, of the ancient Albigenses & Waldenses], London, Rivington, 1832, pp. 192-194.

The Council of Tarragona of 1234, in its second canon:

“No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments in the Romance language, and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days after promulgation of this decree, so that they may be burned lest, be he a cleric or a layman, he be suspected until he is cleared of all suspicion.” (-D. Lortsch, Historie de la Bible en France, 1910, p.14.)