That is a point on which you and the Islamic world agree, but disagree the vast majority of Christians. I suppose you equally condemn any media other than the written word such as music and movies depicting the Biblical stories. How joyless your world must be.
"And perhaps you view the past as a "highly illiterate world", but the fact is that copies of the NT letters, together with the Hebrew texts, existed and were read & circulated in nearly every city of the known world. "
You are ignoring that there was a lingua franca, Greek that enabled persons to read those writings or that there were many, many fraudulent and heretical versions in circulation at that time. (note that the Septuagint was one such collection in circulation for the majority of the world's Jews who could not read Hebrew and the growing Christian community.) When the need for a new vernacular was recognized the Church produced the Vulgate, whose very name revealed its intended audience.
No it is not the Catholic Church that is in the dark shadow of the reformation.
Stay locked in the closet of ingrown self-righteousness and deception, if you must. Rome has enslaved its millions, the way the Islamic cult has enslaved millions.
The joy and freedom of Jesus Christ, alone, exists now as it has existed since His blood was shed on Calvary. The elect welcomed the rescue and call to those who rely on props...come out, if you can. That one must be chained to men in bathrobes and pointy hats to have hope is not only tragic, but borders on demonic.