We did not “add” the deuterocanonical books... we included them long before Martin Luther took them out.
We do not consider the CCC as Scripture, either.
Of COURSE not!
It's much, MUCH better!
It teaches what Scripture REALLY means!
It's part of "catholic tradition" which we've been told too many times on this board is just as good, if not better, than scripture.
See Jerome regarding the apocrypha.
Jerome, who translated the Hebrew scriptures, did not believe they were canonical (infallible )... He placed them in a separate section for "meditation"
The fact is until Trent Rome did not have an official cannon ..people were free to accept them or not..