Praise God for this beer drinker!

Just back from seeing the guttenberg museum. Totally agree. Catholic system (power of the day) wanted to ban printing. Just like powers of the day today trying to stop math! https://blossom.primal.net/c2696adf34ab6faaddc7c992bdf0965788591af6a2078a92f6cb91b4de876c5b.jpg https://blossom.primal....

Gutenberg was Catholic, the first thing printed was the “Gutenberg Bible”, a Latin Vulgate Mazarin Bible. The Church fully embraced the printing press, and is why it became so widespread. The Pope (Pius II) praised the printing press and it was used for everything from Bibles to administrative ...

Won’t speak for Roman Catholic Church but the Eastern Orthodox Liturgy (the whole of every service throughout the year) is drenched in scripture and references to scripture. Pre-printing press brooks were exceedingly expensive and literacy therefore rare. The clerical position of reader in the Chu...