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=== Catholics ignore the Bible ===
Because Catholics do not rely upon the Bible as the exclusive and single authority on Christian doctrine, it sometimes claimed that Catholics ignore it. But this is false. Instead, the Bible is considered a part of the [[Deposit of Faith]] alongside [[Sacred Tradition]] (in other words, [[[Apostolic Succession]]). The Bible is the ''written'' part of tradition. This is reinforced by the historical development of the Bible, which began in the 1st Century and ended with the present structure of the Bible with the acknowledgment of the [[Council of Trent]] in the 16th Century. Therefore, the Bible is not ignored, but is interpreted as a component of Church tradition. There are no sources in Catholic theology except for Scripture and Tradition.
The Catechism states:
''You recall that one and the same Word of God extends throughout Scripture, that it is one and the same Utterance that resounds in the mouths of all the sacred writers, since he who was in the beginning God with God has no need of separate syllables; for he is not subject to time.'' (Part One, Section One, Chapter Two, Article Three)
=== Lay Catholics are not encouraged to read the Bible ===
