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Those books were called “deuterocanonical” by the Catholic Council of Trent.

Nice try, but they aren’t meant as anything more than possible history, according to the Catholic church.

—— Great link. Thank you.

It is a great link. What I like about Wikipedia is that their goal is to provide as accurate and complete a description of a subject as possible, with a primary objective being to present the points of view of all interested parties.

If you go to the following link,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books

you will find that Judaism and most Protestant versions of the Bible exclude these books. But contrary to the above statement that these books “aren’t meant as anything more than possible history, according to the Catholic church [sic],” these books are considered canonical by the Catholic Church. The following excerpt from the link describes the history of the treatment of these books by the Catholic Church.

Philip Schaff says that “the council of Hippo in 393, and the third (according to another reckoning the sixth) council of Carthage in 397, under the influence of Augustine, who attended both, fixed the catholic canon of the Holy Scriptures, including the Apocrypha of the Old Testament, ... This decision of the transmarine church however, was subject to ratification; and the concurrence of the Roman see it received when Innocent I and Gelasius I (A.D. 414) repeated the same index of biblical books. Schaff says that this canon remained undisturbed till the sixteenth century, and was sanctioned by the council of Trent at its fourth session,”[1] although as the Catholic Encyclopedia reports, “in the Latin Church, all through the Middle Ages we find evidence of hesitation about the character of the deuterocanonicals...Few are found to unequivocally acknowledge their canonicity,” but that the countless manuscript copies of the Vulgate produced by these ages, with a slight, probably accidental, exception, uniformly embrace the complete Roman Catholic Old Testament.[2]

The Council of Trent supported the decisions about which books to include in the canon that were determined by earlier councils in 1546.[3][4] While the majority at Trent supported this decision there were participants in the minority who disagreed with the books accepted in the canon. Among the minority, at Trent, were Cardinals Seripando and Cajetan, the latter an opponent of Luther at Augsburg.[5][6][7] The Fathers in session at Trent confirmed the statements of earlier regional councils which also included the deuterocanonical books, such as the Synod of Hippo (393), and the Councils of Carthage of 397, and provided “the first infallible and effectually promulgated pronouncement on the Canon” by the Roman Catholic Church.[8]