Thank goodness the Catholics protected the Bible so that you have one to read.
Technically, it was the Scotish/Irish monks in the Isles who preserved the Bible as we know it today.
So you really have to thank the Anglicans.
(They were Roman Catholics at the time, at least in name, so you're 100% right, too.)
There's a great book "How the Scots saved the world" (or somesuch) that recounts this, among others.
It's just the easy one to read.
"Thank goodness the Catholics protected the Bible so that you have one to read."
ahh. Well then thank you for your library. The Gospels were not invented by the Catholics.
I hear that nonsense all of the time like somehow that absolves Catholicsm from the evils of interpretation it purveys.
It is not the responsibility of the Catholic clergy to tell me how to interpret the Bible.
I will not be spiritually subvervient to any man (who are sinners) as required by the Catholic church.
Men are too weak to have such authority.
Seek Christ for yourself. Let the Holy Spirit guide you in your studies of the Gospels and let His words speak to you as an individual and a saint, and a disciple, of Christ.
Thank you, coon2000.