Why do you think it’s radical for Catholic kids to read the bible? That’s not my experience, that’s not my family’s experience, nor my parish’s. Do you have some inside information we don’t know about?
>>Why do you think it’s radical for Catholic kids to read the Bible?<<
I don’t think it’s radical at all. But I’ve been shouted down by some catholics for suggesting it.
As best I can gather, these people think that the Bible needs to be explained by professional clergy much the same way Tom Brokaw says the media should ‘filter’ the news for us.
I think God can speak for Himself.
My experience, back in the years following Vatican II, was having my Bible snatched by a nun and being scolded for having purchased one. Eventually it was returned to my mom. Since that day, I have read the Bible on my own, at home. I did not carry my Bible around other people until after I started attending a Southern Baptist church. So, from my experience, limited as it is, it seems like it is radical for Catholic kids to read the Bible. I know things have changed a lot, but not too long ago I taught science at a Catholic school and was told I could not have my New King James withing sight of the students!!!
Inside information , and it also depends which century,