The Catholic Church determined the 73 book canon of the New Testament and the Old Testament, that's also a fact. The canon was definitively closed by Pope St. Innocent I in 405 AD. Even Luther admitted that.
"We are obliged to yield many things to the Papists(sic) - that they possess the Word of God which we received from them, otherwise we should have known nothing at all about it." Commentary on St. John, ch. 16
The Catholic Church had no authority to do anything with the Old testament.. per Paul. According to the Jews, The Old testament canon was closed a century before Christ. Given that they are the proper authority on that matter and they did not canonize the apocryphals, you're left with no basis of authority with which to act in including them. In effect, the church exceeded it's statutory jurisdiction.
You can cite what you will on the subject; but, authority is everything in these matters. Without it, you're just whistling past the graveyard.