Bible Truth
Objection: “The Catholic Church is not a Bible-believing Church. It
has no love for the Word of God!”
The Catholic Church is not only a Bible-believing Church but also the
Church of the Bible. Only the Catholic Church among the many thousands
of others can demonstrate a continued existence from the time of Christ and
the Apostles to the present day. When Christ ascended into heaven He left
behind a living Church endowed with His power and authority to continue
His work of salvation in the world. It was only in the immediately
following decades that the Holy Spirit inspired certain Apostles and
Evangelists to reduce into written form the teachings of Christ already
delivered “once and for all to the saints” (Jude 1:3).
A simple cursory look at the Catholic Church’s history suffices to rebut the
above objection. The Catholic Church has always used extensively the
Scriptures in her public worship, reading out for the spiritual benefit of her
children extracts from the Old Testament, the Gospels, the Epistles of St.
Paul and the Universal Epistles. The Scriptures have always formed the
backbone of the Divine Office, the official public prayer of the Church.
When heresies arose denying the value of the Old Testament, the Catholic
Church responded in its defense. Her apologists and heroes combated all
other heresies directly from the Scriptures. The writings of the Church
Fathers are replete with tens of thousands of references from every book of
the Bible. Catholic philosophers, Scholastics, Doctors, Saints, theologians
and writers of all sorts always had the words of Scripture flowing from
both their pens and their lips, producing over the centuries the greatest
treasury of literature in human history. Not one Council or Papal
pronouncement is devoid of Scriptural references, neither does one find the
Scriptures absent from one page of any official Church catechism. The
Catholic Church gave the world an authoritative list of the canonical books,
translated them into every language before the emergence of Protestantism,
and has faithfully interpreted them to all generations. Popes have granted
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