A technicality in that people did not have access to Scripture because the Catholic church forbade people from owning it. It borders on deceit to claim that because the Catholic church worked hard to keep it out of the hands of the laity.
Catholics prohibited from owning Scripture
COUNCIL OF TOULOUSE - 1229 A.D Canon 14. We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament; unless anyone from motive of devotion should wish to have the Psalter or the Breviary for divine offices or the hours of the blessed Virgin; but we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books.
Source: Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, Edited with an introduction by Edward Peters, Scolar Press, London, copyright 1980 by Edward Peters, ISBN 0-85967-621-8, pp. 194-195, citing S. R. Maitland, Facts and Documents [illustrative of the history, doctrine and rites, of the ancient Albigenses & Waldenses], London, Rivington, 1832, pp. 192-194.
The Council of Tarragona of 1234, in its second canon:
“No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments in the Romance language, and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days after promulgation of this decree, so that they may be burned lest, be he a cleric or a layman, he be suspected until he is cleared of all suspicion.” (-D. Lortsch, Historie de la Bible en France, 1910, p.14.)
“And in fact, passages from the Bible are read at Mass every day.”
Yes and at my church the bible readings are by lay people not the priest.
In fact, passages from the Bible are read in my home every day.
hummmm
When I was in college, I worked my through cleaning other peoples houses, one house was catholic.
I picked up their bible and they yelled at me “you are not allowed to read that”, time 1972