Are the Deuterocanonical books Viewed as lesser books?

[Nick_Russell]

I have some protestant friends that insist that the Catholic Church views the Deuterocanonical books as lesser books because of the early debates on whether or not to include them. I haven’t been able to find proof of this.

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

No, your friend is incorrect. The Church does not even call them “deuterocanonical” they are simply considered Scripture.

Council of Trent:

Following, then, the examples of the orthodox Fathers, [the Church] receives and venerates with a feeling of piety and reverence all the books both of the Old and New Testaments, since one God is the author of both…

…If anyone does not accept as sacred and canonical the aforesaid books in their entirety and with all their parts, as they have been accustomed to be read in the Catholic Church and as they are contained in the old Latin Vulgate Edition, and knowingly and deliberately rejects the aforesaid traditions, let him be anathema.