I meant to ping you to #1280.
I think Akin has laid out the arguments very well in his article. I would certainly recommend everyone on this thread read it carefully. He dispels the notion that there is one way and one way only for the 14 statements to be whittled down to ten. He points out that *all* religious confessions holding to the Decalogue at all have had to make truncations somewhere in the text, primarily to make the Decalogue easy to memorize. And, most impotantly from the Catholic viewpoint, he makes it clear to non-Catholics that the Church does not "hide" the full text in any way. It's available in every single Catholic Bible in all its "unabbreviated glory," as Akin says, and it is read in its entirety when the text of Exodus 20 is one of the readings at Mass.