[Dr. Eckleburg]

Not much to brag about there.

I’d really like to see some Roman Catholic “authority” urging RCs to open up their Bibles at home and read them.

I guess that’s against the rules. Wouldn’t want any of those “good and pure consciences” to get confused.

[Mad Dawg]

From the Enchridion of Indulgences

READING OF SACRED SCRIPTURE. While a partial indulgence is granted to those who read from Sacred Scripture with the veneration which the divine word is due, a PLENARY INDULGENCE is granted to those who read for at least one half an hour.

[Cronos]

DR E I’d really like to see some Roman Catholic “authority” urging RCs to open up their Bibles at home and read them.

Pope Leo XIII, who in 1893 wrote in his encyclical Providentissimus Deus (On the Study of Holy Scripture):

"There are not a few Catholics, men of talent and learning, who do devote themselves with ardor to the defense of the sacred writings and making them better known and understood. . . . We cannot but earnestly exhort others also, from whose skill and piety and learning we have a right to expect good results, to give themselves to the same praiseworthy work. It is our wish and fervent desire to see an increase in the number of the approved and persevering laborers for the cause of Holy Scripture" (PD 54).

And, of course, we read the Bible at mass too -- just as it was done in the days before universal education (which to remind you is just a century or two old) when most folks couldnt read...