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Apparently, you're not so up on church history dates as I thought. And here I genuinely thought you were going to give me some good info.

I am an ex-Catholic and know a bit about that church. There was huge opposition to an English translation in the 1500's. But I forget...it is easier to call people names than engage in true debate, isn't it?

You're the one ranting about Catholics not wanting the Bible translated into the common language, without any knowledge of Church history.

Work on the translation began in the 1570s; political trouble and occasional lack of funds caused it to be suspended from time to time. The New Testament was published in 1578; the Old Testament took rather longer. The entire Bible was published in 1609, two years before the "Authorised Version".

OBTW, that was hardly the first time the Catholic Church had the Bible translated into the "Common" language, so that it could be read by as many of the faithful as could read. Have you any idea when that was first done, and which languages were involved?

I am an ex-Catholic and know a bit about that church. There was huge opposition to an English translation in the 1500's.

There was no opposition to English language translations in the 1500s.

There was an opposition to antiCatholic English translations.

The first Catholic translations of the Bible into English started in the 8th century.

The first critical translation of the Bible into English was done by Catholics. It is the Douay-Rheims version of the Bible and it was first published in 1582 - long before the the King James Version.

In point of fact, the Douay-Rheims was an important source for the KJV and the KJV Gospels are almost word-for-word reproductions of the Douay text printed a generation before.

The Protestant government of England seized and burned copies of the Douay when it was first published, and it also seized and burned editions of the Geneva Bible - the one most popular among the Calvinists.

So there was great support among Catholics, Anglicans and Calvinists for English-language Bibles - and great opposition by each group to the translations of the others.