It is intellectually dishonest to claim the reason for the omission of the Apocrypha is some type of “antiCatholic” hate speech.
Athanasius excluded those books in 367AD from the Canon even when he presented the list of 27 NT books commonly accepted for the NT today.
While there are numerous lists, they simply are recommended readings, but not considered part of the Canon of Scripture.
Most believers I have observed who are preoccupied with the Apocrypha, also happen to have doubts regarding the canonicity of the more accepted 27 books of the NT. IMHO, if believers have doubts, start with the first 27 books and after mastering and growing through faith in Christ in reading His Word in those books, then continue with others.
What is intellectually dishonest is to presume that anti-Catholicism played no role in the efforts by the Reformation to undermine the authority of the Church on a broad front that included disputing the canonicity of any books that ran contrary to Reformationist doctrines. It is also equally dishonest to contend that Catholic defense of the full 72 book Canon is based upon anything other than the Apostolic Tradition and early Magisterium that produced the New Testament.
I do realize that nothing I post will accomplish what 500 years of Catholic apologetics has not accomplished, but then again, you won't have much success either.