“The wickedness of our enemies is progressing to such a degree that, besides the flood of pernicious books hostile in themselves to religion, they are endeavoring to turn to the harm of religion even the Sacred Literature given to us by divine Providence for the progress of religion itself. It is not unknown to you, Venerable Brethren, that a certain ‘Society,’ commonly called ‘Biblical,’ is boldly spreading through the whole world, which, spurning the traditions of the Holy Fathers and against the well-known decree [see n. 786] of the Council of Trent, is aiming with all its strength and means toward this: to translate—or rather mistranslate—the Sacred Books into the vulgar tongue of every...”  Pope Leo XII, Ubi Primum, May 5, 1824