Did the Church forge sacred scripture?

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I’ve seen this online quite a bit, but because I am unfamiliar with the context, I wondered if anyone could explain?

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6, page 136

People say make arguments that the Church herself is admitting to forging Holy Scripture.

Substitution of false documents and tampering with genuine ones was quite a trade in the Middle Ages. Innocent III (1198) points out nine species of forgery [of ecclesiastical records] which had come under his notice.
But such frauds of the Church were not confined to the Middle Ages; they begin even with the beginning of the Church and infest every period of its history for fifteen hundred years and defile nearly every document, both of “Scriptures” and of Church aggrandizement. As truly said by Collins, in his celebrated Discourse of Free Thinking :
" In Short , these frauds are very common in all books which are published by priests or priestly men… For it is certain they may plead the authority of the Fathers for Forgery, Corruption and mangling of Authors, with more reason than for any of their Articles of Faith…"(p.96.)

Is this true?
 
I think you should indicate that you are not quoting from The Catholic Encyclopedia, but instead from a book called “Forgery in Christianity” by Joseph Wheless. From his Wikipedia page:

Joseph Wheless - Wikipedia

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He apparently espoused the idea that Jesus never existed, an opinion not held by current scholarship. I doubt his credentials as a historian, so I doubt his claim that the Catholic Church forged Scripture on the basis of forged documents (which your quote does not specify what kind of documents they are).
 
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As truly said by Collins, in his celebrated Discourse of Free Thinking :
" In Short , these frauds are very common in all books which are published by priests or priestly men… For it is certain they may plead the authority of the Fathers for Forgery, Corruption and mangling of Authors, with more reason than for any of their Articles of Faith…"(p.96.)

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What proof did he provide?
 
I can’t indicate the text I’m quoting because It’s like I said, this is what I found online and I don’t have the Catholic Encyclopedia vol 6 text to verify it. I was seeking clarification and I wondered if anyone had come across this. Even if you google “ the catholic encyclopedia volume 6 page 136” you’ll find kind of wacky entries.
 
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Even if you google “ the catholic encyclopedia volume 6 page 136” you’ll find kind of wacky entries.
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Yeah, but if you Google all sorts of things, you’ll find spurious attributions and false quotations. That doesn’t mean that they’re true, either.
 
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