Why don't Catholics pay more attention to Scripture?

In recent decades, the Church has encouraged its members to cherish the Scriptures and to make use of new methods of Scripture study. These attitudes were reaffirmed by the Second Vatican Council and subsequent Church documents.

More and more Catholics are learning to improve their understanding of the Bible through the benefits of historical research, literary analysis and the findings of archaeology. Church teaching has wisely steered Catholics away from literal-minded approaches and from reading the Bible as if it were a scientific textbook on the origins of the universe.

In short, more Catholics are reading the Bible today—and with a more solid understanding—than at any other time in its 2000-year history.

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