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“Gutenberg and his printing press put fear into the hearts of the Catholic hierarchy...”

Excuse me, excuse me but

1) Gutenburg was a Roman Catholic
2) his bible was printed in LATIN and
3) was the Vulgate originally translated by St Jerome - a throughly Roman Catholic bible.

How was it that this Latin Catholic Vulgate Gutenburg printed bible struck terror into the hierarchy and brought (Latin??) to the oppressed masses???

Sounds like Protestant revisionism!

AMDG

His invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period.[1] It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the Scientific revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg#cite_note-2]

"An invention by a German goldsmith played a prominent role in the Protestant Reformation. Johannes Gutenberg is the inventor of the Gutenberg press, an innovative printing machine that used movable type. Gutenberg was born between 1394 and 1400 and died in 1468. His invention helped spread the ideas and beliefs of the Protestant Reformers fifty years after his death." [http://www.examiner.com/article/the-printing-press-the-protestant-reformation]

The Johann Gutenberg entry of the Catholic Encyclopedia describes his invention as having made a practically unparalleled cultural impact in the Christian era.

And to further enhance your post.

The first mass produced printed book was the Bible, a version based on the Latin edition from about 380 AD.. The Bible was printed at Mainz, Germany by Johannes Gutenberg from 1452 -1455.

Note the date!