The Roman Church knows that if the people are able to read for themselves God’s word they
will discover that the Catholic traditions and doctrines are not just in addition to the Scriptures, they
violate the Scriptures. The Catholic Church has a long history of trying to keep God’s word from
the people. For example, at the Council of Terragona in 1234 A.D. the Roman Catholic Church
prohibited anyone from possessing any part of the Old or New Testaments in any of the Romance
languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Provencal, French, Rhaeto-Romance, Italian, Sardinian,
and Romanian). The council ruled that anyone owning a Bible was to turn it over to the local
Catholic bishop to be burned. In 1229 at the Council of Toulouse (Pope Gregory IX presiding), the
Catholic Church prohibited “laymen” from having the Holy Scriptures or translating them into the
“vulgar tongue” (common language of the country). In 1551 the Catholic Inquisitional Index of
Valentia forbade the Holy Bible
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