“the Catholic Church exhausted all reasonable means to spread the Gospel message”
Yeah they cared so much they burned people at the stake for daring to translate the Word into everyday languages people could understand.
By the year 500, the Bible had been translated into over 500 languages. There was an Anglo-Saxon translation of the New Testament in 995. I wouldn’t call that trying to keep the Scriptures from the comman man. The Church had no objection to bible translations. They did object to heretical bible translations that left out books from the approved canon or mistranslated egregiosly. I guess people (on both sides) took heresy very seriously back then!