“The Faculty of Theology was not just a school. It operated under the Catholic Church.”
It wasn’t the Church, however. Not only are you beating a dead horse, but you’re beating the wrong dead horse. The university was not the Church. Both were Catholic, but only one was the Church. The other was a school.
“The university was not the Church. Both were Catholic, but only one was the Church.”
Sorry, but there was no separation of church and state in the 1500s. Nor did I cite the Sorbonne as an authoritative statement of church policy, but as an example of the measures Catholics, operating in accordance with the Council of Trent, took to suppress vernacular translations - and WHY they did so.
If you think the Faculty of Theology at the Sorbonne did not operate as an arm of the church, you need to study history some more. There was no such thing as a secular government in Europe in the 1400s and 1500s. There is a reason people fled to America in search of religious freedom. Protestant or Catholic, the governments of Europe acted IAW their state church - the C of E in England after Henry VIII, or the Catholic Church in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, etc.
The Sorbonne Index of prohibited publications was the act of the Catholic Church, for the reasons given, to suppress vernacular translations (and a great many other works, many secular) by the power of the state. Remember, this was the time of events such as the Massacre of Mérindol (1545), done with the approval of both the King of France and Pope Paul III.
One cannot draw a distinction between church and state when none of the principle actors did.