As part of my participation in Becoming Catholic, I’m hearing some interesting stories by former Protestants about the myths they were taught about the Catholic Church. A recurring theme (and one common online), is that Catholics do not read the Bible, and in fact spent a great deal of effort to prevent the common people from reading it. The obvious implication was that the sinister Obscurantist Papists had distorted its teachings and any who dared question them were condemned to a horrible death. It’s a cool story, but to anyone who has done even the most cursory research on the…

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