The Catholic Church did not remove 14 books from the Bible. However, there is a difference between the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible in terms of the books included in the Old Testament.
The difference arises from the fact that the Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, while the New Testament was written in Greek. The Jewish scholars in Palestine translated the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek in the 3rd century BC. This Greek version is known as the Septuagint.
The Catholic Church uses the Septuagint as the basis for its Old Testament, which includes seven additional books that are not found in the Hebrew Bible. These books are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach (also known as Ecclesiasticus), Baruch, and First and Second Maccabees. In addition, the Catholic Old Testament also includes additions to the books of Esther and Daniel.
During the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, Protestant leaders rejected the Septuagint and used the Hebrew Bible as the basis for their Old Testament. As a result, they excluded the seven additional books and the additions to Esther and Daniel from their Old Testament.
