I'm sorry Nancy, my grandmother had a family bible when she was a little girl and she still has it! I don't know where ya'll get this from. We always had a family bible in my house as a kid.I was encouraged to read the bible. I have been Catholic my whole life and just don't experience this stuff ya'll say the Church does
I gather it depends on the diocese, or something like that, or perhaps a large family bible was allowed as long as it contained the Apocrypha. In the 50's and early 60's it was not seemly for catholics to have a bible.