Need list of weird beliefs

[Jim_Dandy]

There are snap-kick answers to each of these, but those “quickies” rarely do the job to an adequate extent.

Re Catholics being prohibited from reading the Bible, there is some truth to this, oddly. Certain Council decrees and the Index of Forbidden Books prohibited Bible possession. Various rationales are given – the translations were defective, the Bibles must have been stolen because before the printing press they were fabulously expensive, and so on. But in the end the decrees and the Index were not limited to defective translations or stolen Bibles.

And, though the Church’s attitude is changing, one can still find elements of the truth of the accusatioin in the modern Church: Try to start-up a formal Bible study group in a parish-owned facility in a parish without a Bible study group. Even in this day-and-age, you will find barriers.

So, sometimes, the complaints about the Church are not 100% wrong. So, Operning Post-er, be mature and balanced in your analysis. Say, “Sometimes, there is some truth to the negative things said about the Church.”

Please provide sources and citations for your allegations.

 

[Uzziah1]

Please provide sources and citations for your allegations.

Is it that you believe that this isn’t possible?

 

[johnnyjones]

The two Council decrees came out in the 1100s and 1200s. I have never read that they were ever expressly reversed. Indeed, the fact that they came out in “the olden days” does not ultimately perfectly “fix things.” Catholics in this website, and even the Church itself, frequently invoke extremely ancient Council decrees.

I don’t know when the Index of Forbidden Books came to include the Bible.

I have a vague memory that, oddly, the Bible prohibition in the Index was not revoked until 1966!

And I stand on what I said about there still being “barriers” to Bible study within the Church. To this day, older priests resist Bible study. Anyone who denies this either does not know what he is talking about, or he is a liar.

When you hear that old Protestant shibboleth, “Catholic priests hate the Bible,” it is not hard to understand why they say this essentially untrue thing.

I understand your point. At one time bibles were chained to the pews because it was thought a laymen was incapable of sufficient understanding of scripture. Bible issues were one of my greatest talking points as a prior fundamentalist. It is a shame if this barrier is still promoted, which I don’t think it is in great numbers.

Much of Catholic doctrine is supported by the reading of scripture. Catholic apologists abound teaching issues of the faith with the bible. Non clergy Catholic bible readers are in full force at this time in history as well. However ancient (or non ancient) the history though, the issue does have a basis in fact as you said. I would be curious to know how widespread the “older” mentality still is?