[PeterFinn]

"The idea that the laity shouldn’t have bibles is crap."

I agree. Yet it had been the policy of the RCC to discourage personal possession of Bibles and it had been and is policy to discourage possession of translations of the Bible that do not concur with Doctrine.

[DarkSavant]

I agree. Yet it had been the policy of the RCC to discourage personal possession of Bibles and it had been and is policy to discourage possession of translations of the Bible that do not concur with Doctrine.

HAHAHA! Did the Catholic Church tear out several books of the Old Testament because it didn't agree with their doctrine, or was that Luther and the other "reformers"? Also, there were several translations of the Bible in several languages before the schism of the Church occured.