Faulty interpretation of CATHOLIC CHURCH DOCTRINE BY PRACTICING CATHOLICS.
It has nothing to do with Scripture because there’s hardly a Catholic I knew that cracked a Bible. The church taught us all that we could not understand it and it was for them to interpret and tell us what it meant, which apparently hasn’t changed much.
Well, I have cracked many a Bible and I suggest you are letting your personal experience blind you to the fact that the Church has made a huge turnabout during the last sixty years. On the other hand, my Protestant grandmother probably spent far more time reading the Bible privately than most Protestants do today.
** hardly a Catholic I knew that cracked a Bible. **
Sorry you don’t know us better LMAO!
End of discussion.
Maybe some Catholic -- even an ordained cleric -- told you that, but that's not "the church" speaking. The church has officially indulgenced Bible reading (that is, private Bible reading by individual lay Catholics), and she wouldn't do that unless she thought it was a Good Thing [tm].
Now if, by "we could not understand it" you mean you were told that you can't just go inventing and embracing willy-nilly ideas you think come from the Scriptures, like "the Ark is a type of Christ" or "Mary is a sinner, spiritually inferior to me" or "the Gospels were written for Jews, they don't apply to us in the Church Age," I would say that's right.
By the way, I'm a cradle Catholic, though I attend a parish with a lot of converts. (I'm in a choir there where almost everyone is a convert from either the Church of Christ or the Church of the Nazarene. They tell a lot of inside jokes that I don't get. :-( )