probably not. I don’t know too many catholics that read the Bible, unfortunately. My janitorial lady at my office building said she was told by her priest it was a sin to read the Bible.
...because if the people read it, they will find out what it really says, and then they'll realize they don't need any of that pompery and ritual at all.
An hour in church singing a few simple lines and repeating the same memorized Biblical passages to confirm one’s faith is about all the Christianity a lot of Catholics get per week. The priest can also tell a personal story or relate something from the Bible. I suppose that’s better than nothing, but real wisdom lies in Bible study itself. You can’t know good from bad otherwise.
Someone is clearly not telling the whole truth here. Devoutly reading the holy Scriptures, far from being a sin, has an indulgence attached to it. In fact, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has the Bible right on their website.
Reading a corrupted version of the Bible, like the JW's New World Translation for example, in preference to a legitimate Catholic translation, would perhaps be a sin.
>>probably not. I don’t know too many catholics that read the Bible, unfortunately. My janitorial lady at my office building said she was told by her priest it was a sin to read the Bible.
Salvation isn’t dependent upon reading the Bible is it?
That's what many of us who were born and raised as Catholics remember being told.
And we're basically accused of being liars when we recount that.
My janitorial lady at my office building said she was told by her priest it was a sin to read the Bible.
Much blood was shed to get the Bible into the hands of the masses centuries ago.
Yet they are still trying to keep people from reading the Bible?
Scary