Do you have a reference for that?
And as you point out, Catholics were not told "not to read the Bible", but not to read it in an unapproved translation nor separate from interpretation from those learned in Scripture (the implication, of course, being that one could not be learned in Scripture unless one had been formally taught).
Incidentally, this was one of the reasons for the development of the Catholic school system in America. Public schools often required reading from the King James Version of the Bible; Catholic parents knew their children were not allowed to do that, so they created their own parallel system where they could read (often the same things) from the Douay-Rheims Bible. |
