That's right! All those heretics burnt at the stake for possessing Bibles had it coming! They had no business studying God's Word themselves! They should have known it was their priest's job to tell them what to believe. And when he did so, they should have shut up, and fallen in line.
That lousy Gutenberg fella really screwed things up. Why couldn't he have just kept his creativity to himself! If he hadn't come along, we'd all still be in one church!
Nobody was ever burned, tortured or in any other way mistreated by the Catholic Church for possessing or reading the approved Latin Vulgate Bible AND THAT IS THE BIBLE THAT GUTENBERG PRINTED.
As I said earlier, if God was so interested in "reestablishing" sola scriptura, wouldn't it have made more sense to wait 80 years and have a Lutheran invent the printing press.
They had no business studying God's Word themselves!
The illiteracy and impoverished state of the people left them extremely vulnerable to heretics who DID have access to Scripture and fashioned it to teach grave error against the Church. There was no possible means of providing a Bible to every member of the Church, a) because it was practical impossibility) and b) because they couldn't read it even if they wanted to. Thus, it became imperative that the Church keep the Bible out of the hands of the intelligentsia and other "progressives" who sought to defame its contents and drag souls into error. And the extent of heresy that required quelling was ample proof that the Church's concerns were extremely well-founded and prudent.