Ban on catholics reading bible?

Question

Why? I think ban was removed in 1966.

kingreef, why was the ban removed? have teachings changed?

Answer 1

I watched a history channel programme about this, it seems that some people who were reading the bible were becoming protestant, and bibles were becoming availiable in languages other than latin, which the pope believed was heretic, that`s why it was banned.

Answer 2

The bible is proclaimed in the daily service and has been for 2000 years. Reading the bible was not banned, reading bad translations was banned. Not all historical translations were unbiased, in fact most English translations prior to the late 19th century were terrible. It isn't the reading of the bible, but rather Protestantized bibles. You would have to look at some of the translations to understand. The earliest Catholic bibles we have in English are from the 800's. Protestants often mistakingly believe Wycliff or sometimes Tyndale translated the first English bible.

What Wycliff did was the very first bible that was a single complete translation. Prior to that, individual books were translated into English one at a time, so that a single bible would be the work of dozens of individual translators who worked at different times, in different places, with different base texts and under different standards. Wycliff sat down and translated the entire document himself.

Tyndale's work was at the base of the KJV. Unfortunately, the KJV is an example of what can go wrong in the translation process. When it was retranslated in 1890, they found 20,000 errors, some of which were the base of doctrine for churches. A simple example of this error can be heard in the Christmas carol verse, "peace on Earth goodwill to men." The correct quotation of scripture would be "peace on Earth to men of goodwill."

The issue was heavily political because the Reformation was a civil war and the theology of the groups were used as war banners. How you translate a particular verse was influenced by the fact the translator's group might be at war with the other possible translations. Luther made the 97th translation into German but felt that James, Jude, Revelations and the books now called the Apocrypha should be left out as false books. He did not consider them part of the canon.

The bible became a document by which Christians were authorized to kill one another. Catholics have always heard the scriptures proclaimed in their entirety, but have been weary of who translated a bible and why following the Reformation. A good example of this today are the Jehovah's Witnesses. Their founder mistranslated a single word in the NT and they now have a variant of the bible that says that Jesus is a god but not THE god. It is this type of nonsense that Catholicism was trying to protect a largely uneducated laity from.

Answer 3

Index Librorum Prohbitorium, list of prohibited publications, the ban was removed by Pope Paul V1 in 1966 I don`t know why.

Answer 4

rankbajun,
I just thought I would let you know that your question is rather poorly worded. I don't know what it is you are asking. Is there a new ban on Bible for Roman Catholics? The article would be good to post if that's true.

Just FYI.

Answer 5

no, thats plain wrong! I think it was yrs ago(as in centruries) if remember in history that the priests and stuff thought thats reading the word of god was too precious for poor people so it was only allowed to be read allowed in latin! Its something like that!

Answer 6

the priest wonted compleat control they claimed people could not understand the message of the bible many died to get the truth to all people but I know many catholics still do not read it themselves

Answer 7

it was when the English took over Ireland and they wanted us all to be Prodestants, but lo and behold they didnt get their way, they even tortured priests for practising catholocism ,

Answer 8

Yet more shite from the great big book of shite