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To: Persevero; Religion Moderator
“The Council of Trent (1545-1564) placed the Bible on its list of prohibited books, and forbade any person to read the Bible without a license from a Roman Catholic bishop or inquisitor. The Council added these words: “That if any one shall dare to read or keep in his possession that book, without such a license, he shall not receive absolution till he has given it up to his ordinary.”

If you are going to cut and paste from an anti-Catholic website you ought to at least have the integrity to admit and cite it.

Once you have done that you should then do a fact check because what you posted is a lie (note: I am not accusing you of lying, only of passing lies along).

Some 300 years earlier, in response to the Albigensian heresy the local councils of Toulouse (1229 AD) and Tarragona (1234 AD) banned possession of unauthorized heretical versions of the bible.

Peace be with you

51 posted on 08/07/2012 8:10:04 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law; Religion Moderator

“If you are going to cut and paste from an anti-Catholic website you ought to at least have the integrity to admit and cite it.”

I did not visit an anti-Catholic website.

People joke about Wiki, but it was sourced and cited and I had no reason to believe it was false.

I have even seen posters at my public library, “Banned Books,” and the Bible has been listed on them as banned by the RC church. I’m not making it up. Of course I was not present personally, who of us could have been, but my sources seem credible.

To the RC church’s credit, they haven’t banned it for a long time, so, good for them.

But we might note that reformers like Wycliffe were burned at the stake for translating it into the common language (English). This was a terrible policy and a terrible occurrence.


58 posted on 08/08/2012 12:21:41 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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