The difference is seven books of the Old Testament. A Catholic Bible has 73 books and a Protestant Bible has 66, with the same 27 in the New Testament. The seven are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch, plus longer versions of Esther and Daniel. Catholics call these books deuterocanonical; Protestants call them the Apocrypha. So most of what a Catholic and a Protestant open on Sunday is the same book: the same Gospels and letters,…

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