A Bias against the Bible?
Google Image When I was a kid, maybe 10-12 years old, I sometimes during the summer went to a weekday Mass at our parish church (Kids in our parochial school all attended daily Mass every school day during the school year.). The Mass in those days was conducted in Latin, so to follow it, most people needed a “missal,” a book that showed the English translation along with the Lain mass prayers. I was walking home from Mass one day, stopping at a street corner, clutching my missal – a black book with a black cover. A lady waiting at the same corner remarked, “Isn’t that nice that you’re carrying your Bible around with you.” “This is not a Bible,” I rudely replied. “It’s a missal.” A "Protestant" Book? Hard to believe today, but in my time, many Catholics like me believed the Bible was a "Protestant" book. In most Catholic schools, what kids learned about the Bible was from “Bible History,” which contained inspirational stories from the Bible. All that changed ...