“When the Calvinists burned Servetus and his books did that means all Protestants weren’t allowed to own Servetus’ books?”
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Exactly - all denominations have done some pretty awful things, Catholics included. That’s part of being human. No denomination has clean hands.
However regarding the bible and Catholics, there is a history - as noted by the US Catholic Bishops in “Changes in Catholic Attitudes Toward Bible Readings”:
“ Until the twentieth Century, it was only Protestants who actively embraced Scripture study. That changed after 1943 when Pope Pius XII issued the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu.”
https://www.usccb.org/offices/new-american-bible/changes-catholic-attitudes-toward-bible-readings
But again, the practice of later religious groups - Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, what-have-you - of shoehorning their beliefs into scripture is standard.
Although it’s dishonest on an intellectual level, it’s otherwise harmless.
Though there are exceptions - groups that won’t allow blood transfusions or ones where just going to the doctor is a “sin” can have very negative outcomes.
Beliefs and doctrine about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin harm no one.
“Exactly - all denominations have done some pretty awful things, Catholics included.”
Catholics are not a denomination. The Catholic Church is the Church founded by Christ. It’s not a denomination.
“That’s part of being human. No denomination has clean hands.”
The Church has human beings in it - but Christ is its head.
“However regarding the bible and Catholics, there is a history - as noted by the US Catholic Bishops in “Changes in Catholic Attitudes Toward Bible Readings”:”
First of all, this wasn’t “noted” at all by the U.S. Catholic bishops because it was never said by them as a body or even individually. You are citing an article written by ONE PRIEST who used to work for an office in the USCCB. Don’t confuse one with the other.
Secondly, you didn’t even get what he wrote correct in its context:
You quote this:
“ Until the twentieth Century, it was only Protestants who actively embraced Scripture study. That changed after 1943 when Pope Pius XII issued the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu.”
But you separated that thought from this:
“Up until the mid-twentieth Century, the custom of reading the Bible and interpreting it [b]for oneself[/b] was a hallmark of the Protestant churches springing up in Europe after the Reformation.”
I’m willing to bet money that Kutys knows nothing about the work of people like Madame Cecilia and the popular Bible studies she wrote decades before 1942.
“But again, the practice of later religious groups - Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, what-have-you - of shoehorning their beliefs into scripture is standard.”
Catholics wrote the New Testament scriptures.
“Although it’s dishonest on an intellectual level, it’s otherwise harmless.”
That comment alone shows you have no idea of what is what.
“Though there are exceptions - groups that won’t allow blood transfusions or ones where just going to the doctor is a “sin” can have very negative outcomes.
Beliefs and doctrine about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin harm no one.”
Throw in the kitchen sink while you’re at it.