[metmom]

there were VERY FEW books or documents to be had by the general public...there was really no need to learn to read because there was nothing to read.

Sources? Anything to back up your claims?

As education advanced in the years following Christs establishment of the Catholic church, monastaries were founded throughout the world, and through them, education and thus literacy spread widely. The Catholic church is largely responsible for the spread of knowledge and literacy from the time of Christ to the present.

What a bunch of baloney.

[terycarl]

The Catholic church is largely responsible for the spread of knowledge and literacy from the time of Christ to the present. What a bunch of baloney.

anything to back up your claims????(not possible)