Pope who wanted to sign Bible with errors

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Does anyone know the name of the Pope who was going to sign a document on a translation of the Bible that was going to be the official Bible of the Church. But that translation had errors in it?

I think I heard it on CAL but cannot find which radio show.

This Pope was going to sign the document the next day but died the night before and never got to sign the document.

I want to tell this to my next RCIA class as an example to show that the Church has never taught heresy in it’s more than 2000 year history.
 
Yes, it was Pope Sixtus (I forget the number). I didn’t think he was the one who died before making an erroneous dogmatic definition–especially since the issue at hand here does not enter into the realm of papal infallibility. Approving a translation for the Church is not definitively confirming a doctrine on faith or morals to be held or believed by the universal Church.

That being said, there was definitely a pope who did die before doing such a thing. I just can’t remember his name! :o
 
stanmaxkolbe said:
Does anyone know the name of the Pope who was going to sign a document on a translation of the Bible that was going to be the official Bible of the Church. But that translation had errors in it?

I think I heard it on CAL but cannot find which radio show.

This Pope was going to sign the document the next day but died the night before and never got to sign the document.

I want to tell this to my next RCIA class as an example to show that the Church has never taught heresy in it’s more than 2000 year history.
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Sixtus V (1585-90). His edition of the Vulgate had 4,300 printing errors, including the omission of an entire verse; partly because he insisted on correcting the proofs of the text in person 😦​

The whole affair is discussed by James Broderick S.J., in his biography of St. Robert Bellarmine (who did his best to stop the Pope trying to do what he was not equipped to do: that is, decide which readings of the Vulgate were to be preferred.)
 
Patrick Marid covered this in Pope Fiction
I can’t remember which show it was on but here is the link for (“ftp://217.160.246.215/pub/audionet/EWTN_programs/Patrick_Madrid/Pope_Fiction/”) and here is link from ewtn on real audio
 
Thanks everybody. I guess I’m not thinking, Pope Fiction, I have the book it’s still wrapped in plastic I guess I better read it.:doh2:
 
Gottle_of_Geer said:

Sixtus V (1585-90). His edition of the Vulgate had 4,300 printing errors, including the omission of an entire verse; partly because he insisted on correcting the proofs of the text in person 😦​

The whole affair is discussed by James Broderick S.J., in his biography of St. Robert Bellarmine (who did his best to stop the Pope trying to do what he was not equipped to do: that is, decide which readings of the Vulgate were to be preferred.)
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Is this book still in print?
 
It was Pope Martin Luther:
  • who added “alone” to Romans 3:28,
  • removed 7 books,
  • called James an epistle of straw,
  • and wanted to dump Revelation out of the bible all together,
  • along with other books he didn’t like.
 
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