The Catholic Church has never favored literacy” This is not true. The Catholic Church was the primary force preserving and advancing literacy and learning in Western Europe for centuries, especially after the fall of the Roman Empire. • Monasteries and scriptoria: Benedictine and other monastic orders maintained scriptoria (copying rooms) where monks meticulously preserved the Bible, Church Fathers, classical Greek/Roman texts (Aristotle, Plato, etc.), and more. Without this, much of ancient knowledge would have been lost. Monks were among the few literate people in early medieval Europe. • Schools and universities: Cathedral schools, monastic schools, and the Church founded the first European universities (e.g., Bologna, Paris, Oxford) in the 11th-13th centuries. These taught grammar, logic, rhetoric, and more — literacy was foundational. • Broader efforts: The Church promoted education through missionary work, catechisms, and later parochial schools. In the Americas and elsewhere, Catholic orders established schools early on. Literacy rates were low overall in the Middle Ages due to agrarian society and the cost of books (hand-copied), not deliberate Church opposition. Claims of systematic opposition to lay literacy are a myth, often stemming from Protestant polemics. The Church emphasized guided interpretation (via clergy and Tradition alongside Scripture) due to risks of error or heresy, but did not oppose reading or education itself.

W. C. Fields said when reading the Bible, “he was only looking for loopholes”. That’s the problem with Sola Scriptoria. Loopholes is cheating, anyway you look at it. youtu.be/4to0LsmRIKk

Thank you because sola scriptoria is so obviously a false standard to place upon texts are tho related we’re not written by God but inspired by His Holy Spirit so that means some men got things a bit off and further so with each translation making divine inspiration necessary

Huellas de patas de gato en un manuscrito del siglo XV. Los gatos eran bienvenidos en los scriptoria porque mantenían alejados a los roedores

Wouldn’t their AI data centers have been scriptoria, libraries and universities?

Because they don’t believe in ecclesiastical authority. Salvation by grace alone, gatekeeping the term “Christian,” sole scriptoria, it all stems from that one issue. If any authority is required, they’re out. They know it, but have no solution for the problem.

Historical context proves the line moves. In medieval scriptoria, "originality" was a failure; faithful transmission was the virtue. The Romantic era moved the line to protect the individual genius.

A Benedictine monk from the Dark Ages that spent his life toiling away in a scriptoria, meticulously copying academic and religious texts onto parchment for preservation, somewhere from the great beyond watching AI and data center propagation like Deus meus, that some bullshit!!