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To: metmom
Did the Catholic church recognize the Apocrypha as Scripture, as canon, before the Council of Trent?

The simple answer is yes. The decree from the Council of Trent which often referenced in the attempt to show that the Catholic Church only accepted the Deuterocanonical (known as the Apocrypha by Protestants) books in the 16th century was, as the council stated, done only "lest a doubt may arise in any one's mind." This was not a new teaching by the Church. Again, as the council stated the list was "as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edition." This ancient usage is confirmed by both their inclusion in approved editions of the Bible and in the readings used at the Mass.

There is often a misunderstanding of the infallible Magisterium of the Church. It includes the universal day to day teaching of the Church, the ordinary Magisterium, as well as the explicit decrees of either popes or councils, the extraordinary Magisterium. The latter only arises when there is a doubt or controversy about the former. When such does occur either pope or council are not free to decide de novo what is the truth but seek to proclaim what the Church as always and everywhere taught.

Again, to answer your question, despite the doubts of certain individuals, the Church through her ordinary Magisterium has since ancient times accepted the Deuterocanonical books as Scripture.

11 posted on 07/21/2013 8:29:27 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius

“The simple answer is yes.”


That simply isn’t true, as all the facts in the article show. You might wish it were true. Roman revisionist history might want you to think it’s true. But it simply isn’t.


18 posted on 07/21/2013 9:08:12 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Petrosius; metmom
Again, to answer your question, despite the doubts of certain individuals, the Church through her ordinary Magisterium has since ancient times accepted the Deuterocanonical books as Scripture.

Then let's clarify a bit further...what does "accepted as Scripture" mean? Are you saying the Catholic Church holds these Apocryphal books as fully, Divinely-inspired, Holy Spirit revealed truth as equal to the Pentateuch, the Law, the Prophets, the Psalms and all the books of the New Testament? Are these books binding upon the Christian and useful for the teaching of the doctrines of the faith and morals?

31 posted on 07/21/2013 10:55:06 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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