“Schaff wrote what he wrote, and he gave his evidence. I’ll let anyone who reads it decide if he was making things up.”
But you’ll call Scott Hahn a liar? The hypocrisy is astounding.
“The Catholic Church actively opposed vernacular translations, and it expressly said why:”
And the quote you posted says nothing about opposing vernacular translations. The quote, in fact, takes it for granted that Catholic authors will make such translations into the vernacular. When will Protestant anti-Catholics learn to read and think?
“When will Protestant anti-Catholics learn to read and think?”
I am content to let Roman Catholics practice their faith in Christ as they feel led to do so. Roman Catholics should respond in kind.
Paul dealt with sectarianism in his first letter to the Corinthians (chapters 1-4). It might serve everyone here well to re-read his words.
“And the quote you posted says nothing about opposing vernacular translations...When will Protestant anti-Catholics learn to read and think?”
Hmmm...
“How dangerous it is to allow the reading of the Bible in the vernacular to unlearned people and those not piously or humbly disposed...Considering the nature of men, the translation of the Bible into the vernacular must in the present be regarded therefore as dangerous and pernicious...”