The Bible was never on the Index of Forbidden Books. Protestant and other heretical translations were.
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YES having a Bible was a capital crime according to the Church..
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A mistranslated Bible is not a bible.
You wrote:
“Thank you...I’ll accept that as a ...YES having a Bible was a capital crime according to the Church..Punishable by death...”
You poor ill-informed person. What makes you think that possession of a book on the Index led to a death sentence? Remember, the Catholic Church had no authority to put men to death. If a sentence of death was carried out, it was carried out by the state. What secular state put men to death for a violation of the Church’s Index? Can you name that state?
This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me wonder if anti-Catholic Protestants can think. It’s as if anti-Catholics had parents who fed them lead paint chips. Why would anyone think that a violation of the Index was a death sentence and who carried out that death sentence? Also, a matter of a few posts ago we were talking about the Middle Ages and now we’re talking about the Index which did not even exist in the Middle Ages!!!
The Index was created only in 1559. If the proper authority for enforcement of the Index was the Roman Inquisition, then how many people were executed after a Roman inquisition trial for violating the Index? Anyone at all?
The only punishment ever attached to a violation of the Index was excommunication. There was no death penalty of violating the Index.