catholics and scriptures

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Proverbs 26:11

It's painfully obvious that Candy Brauer of keepingthehome.com has hit the end of her data base when it comes to slams against the Catholic church. She doesn't know what the Catholic Church teaches and so she has to just keep re-running the same old attacks, while ignoring the rebuttals.   See Kelly's rebuttal to her latest below.

Of course, the Catholic church encourages scripture reading from its members, but Candy will never tell you that. But here's what the catechism actually says!:

1437 Reading Sacred Scripture, praying the Liturgy of the Hours and the Our Father - every sincere act of worship or devotion revives the spirit of conversion and repentance within us and contributes to the forgiveness of our sins.

2653 The Church "forcefully and specially exhorts all the Christian faithful . . . to learn 'the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ' (Phil 3:8) by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. . . . Let them remember, however, that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that a dialogue takes place between God and man. For 'we speak to him when we pray; we listen to him when we read the divine oracles."'


133 The Church "forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful. . . to learn the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ, by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.