First you said I must know a lot of stupid catholics.
Then you explained why they're stupid...
They hear/read scripture in liturgies.
How many are really listening?
The same number you would expect from any given congregation of a full range of age groups.
Is the reading ever really explained?
Yes, and applied to the here and now; most of the time. In depth scripture study is available in every diocese by qualified teachers, not sideways sharing. Priests are not obligated to quote what had just been read out loud.
You say they could recount the teachings...which ones?
A list would do no good, your post is too hostile and arrogant to receive it. I could roughly recount the parables and other parts of Scripture but I don't think you would be satisfied.
Not much is taught in the CC.
A complete summary of all teachings is available on line, plus every encyclical ever proclaimed. For grown ups, spoon feeding isn't done. Children get taught every day in school. Church and schools is the secondary source of education, parents are primary. Less-than-perfect parents is the main reason people leave the Church, IMO.
Not the fault of the parishioners...fault of lazy priests who want to be pastors but don't want to be teachers.
I've met priests who work 18 hours a day. Some priests are better teachers than others. That doesn't give you the right to make insulting remarks.
I would say that, yes, one approach is inferior to the other.
The protestant approach is far better.
I've always found your posts pleasant. Suddenly, you become this angry anti-Catholic, who's expertise is based on the last time you spectated (not participated) a Mass at a wedding or a funeral, and most likely decades before that. I want to be your friend, but how if you are going to be a prejudiced Catholic basher???
2 Timothy 3:
[14] But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed,
(Tradition)
knowing from whom you learned it
(Magisterium)
[15] and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
(Scriptures)
[16] All scripture is inspired by God and
profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
[17] that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Note verse 14-15. It admonishes Timothy to do three things:
1) Remember what you have learned and firmly believed
(Tradition)
2) Know from whom you learned it
(Magisterium)
3) Know you have the
Scriptures
The Bible on St. Paul's list comes in third, not first. He actually gives here the traditional Catholic teaching on the three sources of sound teaching.
In verse 15 he goes into an excursus on the Bible. This brief excursus emphasizes the value of the Bible and recommends a fourfold method of exegesis. This verse was
used in the pre-Reformation Church as a proof text for the Quadriga which was the standard Catholic approach to the Bible.
The Quadriga method used the following four categories:
Literal/Literary
(teaching) - the text as it is written
Analogical
(reproof) - matters of faith
Anagogical
(correction) - matters of hope/prophecy
Moral
(training in righteousness) - matters of charity
The analogical, anagogical and moral senses of the Bible were known collectively as the spiritual senses,
still taught today.
The 'reformers' rejected the BIBLICAL fourfold method of exegesis in favor of a more literal approach,
and ignored 2 Tim 3:16!!!
+...
CCC113 2.
Read the Scripture within "the living Tradition of the whole Church". According to a saying of the Fathers, Sacred Scripture is written principally
in the Church's heart rather than in documents and records, for the Church carries in her Tradition the
living memorial of God's Word, and it is the Holy Spirit who gives her the spiritual interpretation of the Scripture (". . . according to the spiritual meaning which the Spirit grants to the Church"81).
Catechism of the Catholic Church
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