The church lacked the "manpower and resources" to get the Bible to the people, even after Gutenberg? LOL. That sure wasn't very good planning on the part of God, was it?
Meanwhile the magisterium managed to find the cash to build St. Peter's. Apparently the magisterium's priorities were gold and silver and earthly temples over the word of God.
Wycliffe's translation was a horrible one. The KJV has been proven to be substantially in error. Ditto all those unauthorized versions in all the other languages.
Yeah, right. Everyone's wrong, in every nation and language and age, except the RCC.
I have faith God will continue to get His word to His people, just like He always has done -- unchained.
Unchained, inaccurate, fraught with error, and capable of building tens of thousands of erroneous Protestant denominations.
What does St. Peter’s have to do with the dissemination of the Bible? I understand that you have a 20th century view of things. There weren’t the great number of contractors out there that could do anything that you wish from publishing great number of Bibles to translating them. I sometimes wish that I could have that special ability to look at things strictly from a 20th century USA view of things. It might make Calvin a tad less anti Christian.
Okay, look me in the eye and tell me how accurate Wyclif is.
The KJV has never proven to be in error.
Yet they didn't have any problems printing indulgences that a person could buy. Funny how that works.
And they're still struggling with Catholic home Bible studies to this very day while those little cards with devotions to Mary pop up everywhere. They really need to set priorities. Well, maybe they have.