[Vision2020] Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible

[Chasuk]

On 10/15/05, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> As a Catholic, I know of few Catholics that have ever
> taken a 100% literal interpretation of the Bible. In
> fact, in most my religious classes I have taken from
> the church while growing up, the teachers took the
> stance that much of the Bible was a figurative and
> spiritual interpretation of the truth.

I was raised by a fundamentalist Christian mother.  I'd read the Bible
in its entirety several times before I was twelve years old (I'm not
claiming that I understood it, but I think that the exposure made me
appreciate the beauty of language).  Anyway, imagine my shock when I
discovered that my elderly Catholic neighbor had never seen a
concordance.  She didn't, in fact, know what a concordance was, and
didn't seem to care.  Her priest would tell her everything that she
needed to know about the Bible.