**It is true. The RC church forbade its people to read the Bible.
“The Council of Trent (1545-1564) placed the Bible on its list of prohibited books,**
Source please! This is nonsense.
Bibles were copied by hand in those days. That’s why there was only one Bible in a Church — usually chained to the ambo or the pulpit.
I have never come across people saying that Catholics were forbidden to read the Bible.
The Gutenberg Bible was being printed from 1454 on in Mainz, Germany.