The Church should combat widespread "Biblical illiteracy" among the Catholic faithful, Archbishop Eterovic said.
-- from the thread Synod to Focus on Proper Use of ScriptureAccording to a study released in September by Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, evangelical Protestants are a whopping eight times more likely than Catholics to read the Bible on a weekly basis....we tip our hats to our separated brothers and sisters in Christ for their zeal for the Word of God.
-- from the online article Get Cracking, Catholics![article at the National Catholic Register]
Never in my life have I been to a protestant church where the people in the pews got up and read the Bible. The few protestant faiths that do this, like Lutheran and Episcopalians are only copying the Catholic Church. Most baptist, pentacostal and other evangelical churches are nothing more than a self-appointed pastor (some with no training at all), pacing back and forth on the stage, beating his fist on a Bible, and telling you you’re going to hell if you don’t change. Every two of three minutes he says “can I hear an amen, then the congregation repeats “amen” ad nauseam. Most Catholics I know are like me, they bring their own Bible to church. They read the Word, and they certainly hear the Word at each and every Mass. The Catholic Church is the Rolls Royce of Christian faiths, the fallen away faiths beat up Pintos just trying to keep from blowing a gasket.
We are going to be judged by Jesus...I am not afraid of the inevitable. I believe His promise that He’ll forgive the sins of Christians who believe in Him and who have confessed and repented from sin.