Interesting statement.
My church is set up to enter the 'gathering area' or small hall and then enter the church itself through internal double doors. On the table just outside the doors is a family sized St. Joseph edition leatherbound (impressive - I bought one - from the church), as well as a pile of softcover NAB and Jerusalem Bibles. There might even be a D-R Challoner or two, I forget.
I carry the NAB on a variety of electronic devices and have for many years carried the D-R going back to the early Palm Pilots. I go online for the NAB RE including usually when I respond with Bible quotes here or elsewhere.
Spunkets, you may have gotten an outlier on the data chart.
The parish where I grew up (heavily Irish and Italian) probably had enough Bibles in the entranceways to supply every family that attended.
Let us not be contentious in our journey towards God.
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"My church is set up to enter the 'gathering area' or small hall and then enter the church itself through internal double doors. On the table just outside the doors is a family sized St. Joseph edition leatherbound (impressive - I bought one - from the church), as well as a pile of softcover NAB and Jerusalem Bibles. There might even be a D-R Challoner or two, I forget.
...The parish where I grew up (heavily Irish and Italian) probably had enough Bibles in the entranceways to supply every family that attended."
this is just an anecdote. I posted the link from the USCCB that shows Lectionaries are used, not Bibles.
"The Catholic Bible contains the entire OT as written in the Septuagint, which was at the time of Christ, the most widespread and utilized Scripture by the Jews - including Jesus and the Apostles."
The Septuagint was a translation of texts from the Hebrew, which can not be said to be the "most" widepread, only widespread. The Masoretic text collections were also widespread. Neither were "canonical" and each had their followers. It's not logical to conclude that the Jews removed the deuterocanonical texts, because they were never common.