Meet the Bible Catholics

As Pope Francis continues to lead the Church back to essentials, one might ask: what is more essential to learning about Jesus Christ and the often-unrecognized trajectory of salvation history? Beyond the three-year series of readings in the lectionary, how can a modern yet genuinely Catholic understanding of the Bible be brought to everyone in the Church?  To learn more about this topic, I interviewed Carol Kloss, scripture scholar and pioneer in implementing programs of Bible study called “Scripture Schools.”

Carol Kloss grew up in the ‘60s, during Vatican II and its implementation. Her neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago was solidly Catholic, her parish unique: adjacent to a monastery with a swimming pool and apple orchard, a grade school with over 1,000 students, activities every night of the week, a credit union on site, and a bowling alley with 4 lanes and a bar where (male) parishioners could spend time after work.