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"Patrick" <barker...@erinot.com> wrote in
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> Why does the Catholic Church discourage Bible reading when, according
> to the Apostle, ``All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to
> teach...[and] to instruct in justice''? (2 Tim. 3:16).
> 
> If the Catholic Church discourages Bible reading, the Pope, the
> thousands of Catholic Bishops, and the many millions of Catholic lay
> people, are not aware of it. For the Popes have issued pastoral
> letters to the whole Church, called encyclicals, on the edifying
> effects of Bible reading. The Catholic Bible far outsells all other
> Christian Bibles worldwide. In fact, it has always been thus. The very
> first Christian Bible was produced by the Catholic Church--compiled by
> Catholic scholars of the 2nd and 3rd century and approved for general
> Christian use by the Catholic Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage
> (397). The very first printed Bible was produced under the auspices of
> the Catholic Church--printed by the Catholic inventor of the printing
> press, Johannes Gutenberg.


The Council of Tarragona of 1234, in its second canon, ruled that:

"No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments in the 
Romance language, and if anyone possesses them he must turn them 
over to the local bishop within eight days after promulgation of 
this decree, so that they may be burned lest, be he a cleric or 
a layman, he be suspected until he is cleared of all suspicion."



 And the very first Bible with chapters and
> numbered verses was produced by the Catholic Church--the work of
> Stephen Langton, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury. It was this
> perennial Catholic devotion to the Bible which prompted Martin
> Luther--who certainly cannot be accused of Catholic favoritism--to
> write in his Commentary on St. John: ``We are compelled to concede to
> the Papists that they have the Word of God, that we received it from
> them, and that without them we should have no knowledge of it at
> all.'' 
> 


    So why was William Tyndale burned at the stake by 
the Catholic Church for printing and distributing Bibles?