Why do not Catholics have a Bible in the house?

1 min readUpdated 12 October 2022

Catholics are quite free to possess and read approved versions of the Bible. As you cannot have searched every Catholic home in the country I can but wonder at your credulity in thinking that Catholics do not have Bibles in their homes.

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