Who here, truly believes that the Pope and Catholic Church was opposed to the Bible being Translated?

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This question is a canard. Anglicans have no power to accuse heresy until they point the gun at themselves. And your lengthy Question exceeds Yahoo limits! Get over it and stop preaching the question. Ask the true Catholics, if you can discern who they are. It is not still-Presbyterian Hahn

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P.S. Catholic Faith was completed with Pius XII. Take that to the bank....Show more

Not me, though it is a wide spread belief in anti-Catholic circles.

It is true that at one time, long, long ago, translation of scripture into a language other than Latin was forbidden, but this was back when Latin was the vernacular. As soon as it stopped being so, the Church began translating the bible into other languages, the earliest documented occurrence of this into Old English in the 700's.

The Catholic Church continued a long tradition of carefully translating the bible into various languages, though even through much of the protestant reformation, the people knew enough Latin to understand what was being said in Church. During this time, the Church never truly forbade translation of scripture, but only declared that Church approval was needed first. This insured that no armchair scholar would try to do it and create a horrible mistranslation that mislead many people. When the Jesuits came along, they translated the bible into dozen of languages it had never been written in before.

So no, the Catholic Church was never opposed to the bible being translated. That's a myth, though a fairly popular one. Why it matters so much to some, I don't know though. It's not like it would have mattered, since anyone living centuries ago who was well educated enough to read, was also well educated enough to understand Latin. Its not like these non-Latin speaking masses could have understood a bible written in their language, being illiterate, or ever afforded one before the invention of the printing press.

Though some anti-Catholics mistakenly believe that the Church forbade translation of the bible during the protestant reformation, it was actually King Henry the VIII, a protestant, that forbade translation of scripture. He even had burned at the stake someone who translated the bible into English (Tyndale I think), but that is commonly attributed to the Catholic Church too....Show more

Not only were they opposed to the bible being translated but they also had anyone who translated the bible put to death.

William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c. 1494 – 1536) was a 16th century scholar and translator who became a leading figure in Protestant reformism towards the end of his life. He was influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus, who made the Greek New Testament available in Europe, and Martin Luther.[1] Tyndale was the first to translate considerable parts of the Bible into English, for a public, lay readership. While a number of partial and complete translations had been made from the seventh century onward, particularly during the 14th century, Tyndale's was the first English translation to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, and the first to take advantage of the new medium of print, which allowed for its wide distribution. This was taken to be a direct challenge to the hegemony of both the Roman Catholic Church and the English church and state. Tyndale also wrote, in 1530, The Practyse of Prelates, opposing Henry VIII's divorce on the grounds that it contravened scriptural law.

In 1535, Tyndale was arrested by church authorities and jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde outside Brussels for over a year. He was tried for heresy, strangled and burnt at the stake in 1536....Show more

Yes, I can state that the Popes have always been against the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages that were not authorized, not translated correctly, and with entire books stripped from the original manuscripts.

Who gave them this authority?

Matthew 28:18-20

Then Jesus approached and said to them, "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."...Show more

the first answer hit the nail on the head ....Show more