Does the Church promote us reading the Apocrypha of the Clementine Vulgate?

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In 1592, Pope Clement VIII published his revised edition of the Vulgate. He moved three books not found in the canon of the Council of Trent into an appendix, “ne prorsus interirent,” “lest they utterly perish”.

Prayer of Manasses
3 Esdras (1 Esdras in the King James Bible)
4 Esdras (2 Esdras in the King James Bible)
All the other books of the Old Testament, including the deuterocanonical books, were placed in their traditional positions

So since these texts do have a history in the Church is it okay to read them?
 
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Of course it’s okay to read 3 and 4 Esdras. Nothing wrong with them; just not part of the Canon. They are pious books.
 
I’ve never heard of a prohibition on reading Biblical apocrypha (and there’s a lot more of it than just what you listed there).
 
Oh I know. I own volumes of New testament apocryphal apocrypha. And old testament pseudiographical books.
I only asked about these texts because they were in the traditional Vulgate.
 
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