No, it isn't shabby at all. But I'd like to see some stats re how many of the supposedly 69+ million Catholics in America faithfully attend the daily Mass.
....Catholics account for nearly 23 percent (64.8 million) of the U.S. population, the single largest faith group in the United States. But only 33 percent of U.S. Catholics attend Mass on a weekly basis, according to a 2005 poll by CARA Catholic Poll...Related threads:A growing minority of self-identified Catholic adults haven't made their first reconciliation, received their First Communion or been confirmed, according to research from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University....Still, the number of Catholics in the U.S. has remained stable because of the immigration of Latinos. The U.S. has 69.1 million Catholics, about 23 percent of the population.
Nota bena, this is officially what the Catholic Church provides for her flock, she can't "force feed it". It's got to come from the heart.
No one can say that the Catholic Church "discourages Bible reading" after reading these stats.