When Noah built the Ark and weathered the flood he did not take credit for saving mankind. When Moses led the Jews out of Egypt he did not take credit for delivering them to the Promised Land. They were tools in the Lord's hands. So why is it that the RC Church takes credit for canonizing the Scriptures?
Uh...because it did?
Whether Noah and Moses took credit for what they did or not, they DID what they DID, no? Whether the Church takes self-conscious credit for what it did regarding the canon of Scripture, its actions in this matter are of historical record. We Catholics, when defending the Catholic nature of the canon of Scripture here on FR and elsewhere, have every right to point out verifiable facts concerning our Church's involvement. I do not think that the Church, per se, trumpets its canonization of Scripture every waking moment, as you imply. Rather, individual members of the Catholic Church on this forum are oftern obliged to bring the matter up when people palpably ignorant of easily attainable and verifiable history attempt to retroactively rewrite that history (or simply ignore it) to further a disingenuous agenda.