Question for Catholics on the Scriptures

[mossrose]

And Moss sorry, Marian Traditions are off the table

Why?

[Rushing Jaws]

No, they most certainly do consider the deuterocanonical books to be divinely inspired scripture. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church

120 It was by the apostolic Tradition that the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books.

This complete list is called the canon of Scripture. It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if we count Jeremiah and Lamentations as one) and 27 for the New.

The Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zachariah and Malachi.

121 The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired and retain a permanent value, for the Old Covenant has never been revoked.

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Emphasis added.

But not, alas, 1 Enoch. Ecclesiasticus is good though. An alternative way of getting 45 books is to count The Letter of Jeremy as chapter 6 of Baruch.

45 OT books
27 NT books
equals 72 books. Which is easy to remember because 27 is 72 reversed; the difference being the number of OT books. It also helps that 72 crops up in the Bible.