[LouAvul]

Women had been educated in Catholic universities for centuries prior.

Regardless. The catholic "church" still considered biblical interpretation too important to be left to "laymen" and didn't want anyone other than "clergy" to possess Bibles. They wanted theirs to be the only game in town.

[pbear8]

and didn't want anyone other than "clergy" to possess Bibles

And why they didn't want the printing press invented. All those centuries of monks labouring away in the scriptorium to produce beautiful Bibles were meaningless, the Church should have just allowed laypeople to order a Bible from Amazon. They are so evil.

[Dr. Sivana]

The catholic "church" still considered biblical interpretation too important to be left to "laymen" and didn't want anyone other than "clergy" to possess Bibles.

1. Nuns are not clergy. Yet they studied scriptures in the religious orders. 2. Great scholars like St. Thomas Moore were not clergy, either. He certainly had access to a Bible.

Before Gutenberg invented his printing press, only the very rich could afford Bibles at all. They were available to read in churches. Of course Gutenberg himself printed Catholic bibles.