“the Catholic Church exhausted all reasonable means to spread the Gospel message”
Yeah they cared so much they burned people at the stake for daring to translate the Word into everyday languages people could understand. They hated John Wycliffe so much they dug up his long dead bones and burned them at the Command of Pope Martin V. His ashes were thrown in a river.
The Catholic Church banned corrupted bibles such as the Tyndale and Wycliffe Bibles. These bibles contained not only gross translation errors, but they also contained heretical commentaries in an attempt to undermine the Church.
According to Saint Thomas More: “finding errors in Tyndale’s book (Bible) was like studying to find water in the sea.” King Henry VIII, himself, in 1531 passed an edict
prohibiting and expelling the Tyndale Bible from among his subjects.
At the time of the Reformation there were 14 translations of the Bible in German alone, all authorized and approved by the Catholic Church. In addition, the Church had also approved 11 Italian, 10 French, and 2 Bohemian translations,
and one Flemish and one Russian translation. The Catholic Church did all it could to prevent corrupted translations from spreading. The sole purpose was to assure that
people would know the Word of God and not that of mere men, just as today people reject the Jehovah’s Witness New World Translation. Luther’s Bible was heretical because: (1) he inserted the word alone in Romans 3:28 to distort the meaning, ie., he made it read “For we hold that a man is justified by faith alone apart from the observance of the law.” (Compare with James 2:24), (2) he rejected the Deuterocanonicals as uninspired, and (3) he eliminated the books of Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation.
Asked by whose authority he changed the Bible after 1500 years, Luther declared,“By my authority.” That is, he simply made it up!