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You might want to rethink your charge. In the first place, it was Protestants that made the Bible available to the common person. Catholics restricted copies of the Bible to the priesthood. Thanks to Gutenberg. The first Bible written in English was translated by Protestants, producing the Geneva Bible, which was a standard Bible in colonial America (preceding the King James Bible). It included the Apocrypha, but the Apocrypha was never considered to be Holy Writ.
Nope.
https://catholicbridge.com/catholic/did-the-catholic-church-forbid-bible-reading.php
http://shamelesspopery.com/did-the-catholic-church-try-to-suppress-the-bible/
I don't understand the "nope." It is indeed true that the Protestants made the Bible available to the common person in the common language, thanks to the printing press (which had been around for a long time). The Church of Rome was not engaged in such evangelism. Since they were not offering Bibles to the laity, the default was to keep them within the church. Or, where are all the copies of popular Bibles printed in Latin?
And it is a fact that the Geneva Bible, produced by Protestants and printed in large quantities, included the Apocrypha (but not as Holy Writ). I have a copy and have read it (though the Apocrypha are still on my list, because they are available in digital form, not printed form).
Your URLs are largely beside the points at issue.
Are you kidding? Jesuits had been traveling the world educating people in the ways of the Bible for a long time before Protestantism.
Ugh. The ignorance is astounding. Do you even bother to look into these things before you write?
I'm sorry. You just don't want to discuss the point, which was the availability of the Bible, as a bridge to the inclusion of the Apocrypha. If you want to contend that the Jesuits were evangelical door-to-door salesmen, that may be true and fine, but if the person being "taught" had no Bible to refer to, their grasp of Holy Writ would be poor. Do you have your Bible memorized? I don't and I've read 3 translations, and I don't know Latin and I don't know Greek. This is all for the importance of the Bible being in the common tongue.
So, where are all the copies of popular Bibles printed in Latin, used by the laity? You can't seriously expect that lectures from itinerant Jesuits are the same thing as having an actual copy of Holy Writ to refer to. Especially if one wants to question church doctrine from the standpoint of the Bible (which is where Luther began his questions).
And maybe some Protestants removed the Aprocrypha from the Bible, but it was never deemed Holy Writ, and other Protestants included them (e.g., the 1599 Geneva Bible). You are poorly advised to make a blanket accusation.
(I think some of our exchanges have been sent to finishing school or something.)