Paul says, in 1 Timothy 4:2, of false teachers, who lead men away from the faith that they will speak "lies in hypocrisy." He speaks again in 2 Thessalonians 2:9 of the "lying wonders" of the man of sin. The surprsing thing concerning Roman Catholic writers is their lack of reticence in applying that sort of characterization to the Catholic Church by using practically every synonym for forgery and lying in the language, to describe their own literature. I have noted more than fifty different expressions all of which have this general meaning. All these are used by Catholic writers to describe their own "history". I have arranged them for you below with references from their own sources.
Forgery "quite a trade" with Catholics. Catholic Encylopedia, VII, 136; V, 780; XII, 768; XIV, 378.
"Forgery" Catholic Dictionary, 772, 338, Dogmatic Theology, II, 279, 564; Cath. Encyclopedia, V, 778, 780; VII, 646; XII, 768; XIII, 186; XIV, 378.
"Spurious" Catholic Dictionary, 43, 522; Catholic Ency., VII, 644, 645; IX, 234-5; XV, 485.
"Fraud" De Montor, I, 197.
"Legal Fiction" Inquisition, 128-130.
"Fable" Short History, 82; Explanation of Catholic Morals, 115, 116; Catholic Ency., VII, 539.
"Ficticious"Cath. Ency., I, 636.
"False"Catholic Dictionary, 105.
"Highly Debatable"Cath. Ency., IX, 743.
"Unlikely Tale"Explanation of Catholic Morals, 115, 116.
"Exaggeration", Question Box, 520, 521.
"Pure Works of Imagination" Catholic Encyclopedia, IX, 743.
"Pious Fancy" Catholic Ency., IX, 743.
"Editorial Manipulations" Cath. Ency., IX, 743.
"Unreliable" Cath. Encyl., IX, 743.
"Manufacture" Catholic Dictionary, 338.
"Pretended"
"Not History" Explanation of Catholic Morals, 115, 116.
"Historically Untenable"Catholic Encyclopedia, IX, 224.
"Falsely Attributed" Cath. Encyl, XIV, 666.
"Pseudo", [false, spurious, counterfeit] Webster's Dictionary
"Pseudo-Apostolic"
"Pseudo-Athanaseus" Catholic Encyclopedia, II, 92.
"Pseudo-Origens" Catholic Ency., II. 92.
"Pseudo-Dionysius" Cath. Dict., 402.
"Pseudo-Isadore" Cath. Ency., V, 778, 780.
"Full of Errors" Catholic Ency., IX, 224.
"Apocryphal"Cath. Ency., V, 780; Lives and Times of the Roman Pontiffs, I, 31, 86; Cath. Ency., XIV, 378.
"Myth"Explanations of Catholic Morals, 115, 116.
"Doubtful Value"Externals of the Catholic Church, 131.
"Gloss"
"Interpolation"
"Whitewash"Question Box, 176; Catholic World, Oct. 1925.
"Casuistry"
"Not Authentic"Explantions of Catholic Morals, 115, 116; Administrative Leg., 158.
"Unauthentic"Catholic Encyclopedia, IX, 225; De Montor, I, 36.
"Utterly False" Cath. Dict., 338.
"Subterfuge"Inquistion, 128-130.
"Anachronism"Catholic Dictionary, 674.
"Place [words] on the Lord's Lips"
"Invented Decretals" Cath. Dict., 338.
"Far-Fetched"
"Superstition"Lives And Times Of The Roman Pontiffs, I, 197.
"Legend" Catholic Dictionary, 9.
"Quasi-historical testimonies" Cath. Encyl., VII, 326, 341, 342.
"Manipulations"
"Professed to contain" Catholic Dictionary, 43.
"Purports to be" Cath. Ency., I, 36.
"Compiler Supposes" Cath. Ency, I, 72..
"Substituting False Documents" Catholic Encyclopedia, VI, 136.
"Tampering with Genuine Ones" Cath. Ency., VI, 136.
"Very Good Poetry, Very Poor History" Catholic World, Oct. 1925.
"Human Origin"Externals of the Catholic Church, 19.
"Pretended to be" Cath. Dict., 41, 42.
"Little or No Historical Value" Cath. Dict., 9, 10.
"Assumed" Cath. Ency., 184, 186.
"Rife with Fabrications" Commentary on Cannon Law, Augustine, I, 23.
"Invention"Cath. Dict., 772; Cath. Ency., VII, 327.
"Antinomies" [contradictions]
"Age of Great Ignorance"
"Uncritical Age"
"Simplicity" Explanation of Catholic Morals, 115, 116.
"Naivete" Explanation of Catholic Morals, 115, 116.
"Mental Reservation" Question Box, 433, 434.
"Changes" Cath. Ency., VII, 327.
This next group deals with actual forgeries from the 2nd Century to the 20th. Roman Catholics were continually manufacturing documents, purporting to be ancient, many of them attributed to the New Testament characters. But these forgeries were really hundred of years after the death of the persons whose names they bear. Many of Rome's doctrines today have their origin in these forgeries, which Rome admits, yet continues to teach as doctrines, that which has come from man.
2nd Century: Epistle of Barnabas, (Catholic Encyclopedia, II, 299-300.) In Codex Sinaiticus (4th Century)
2nd Century: Shepherd of Hermas, (Catholic Ency., VII, 268-270). Sinaiticus -- Mid Ages -- penance.
2nd Century: Didache (Catholic Encyclopedia, IV, 779) "embodies" Apostolic Constitutions.
3rd Century: Didaskalia Apostolorum (Cath. Ency., IV, 781-2) "earliest attempt -- Corpus Juris."
4th Century: Apostles Creed (Cath. Ency., I, 629, 630) "unhistorical" "legend" "ex Cathedra" Cath. Ency., I, 632.
4th Century: Liberian Catalogue (Cath. Ency., IX, 224,) ends with Liberius.
4th Century: Clementine Recognitions -- 20 books (Cath. Ency., IV, 14, 39-41, 44.) Summa 7 times, "forms" (Cath. Ency., IV, 42.)
4th Century: Clementine Liturgies (Cath. Dict. , 522.)
4th Century: Apostolic Church Ordinaces (Cath. Ency., I, 635).
4th Century: Egyptian Church Ordinances (Cath. Ency., I, 636.)
5th Century: Acts of the Martyrs -- 12 Books (Dictionary, 9; ) Lives of Saints, 64 volumes. (Question Box, 122) (Lives of Saints began Acts of Martyrs)
5th Century: Apostolic Cannons (85 Cannons) (Dictionary,, 41-42; Cath. Ency., III, 280.
5th Century: Apostolic Constitutions -- "embodies" Didache (Cath. Ency., IV, 779; I, 571. Cath. Dict., 43.)
5th Century: Dionysius the Aeropagite (Cath. Dict., 402; Cath. Ency., V, 13-17; Dog. Theology, II, 279.)
5th Century: Antiochene Liturgy (Cath. Ency., I, 572.)
5th Century: Canons of Hippolytus (Cath. Ency., VII, 361-2; XI, 307, 622, on penance I, 636.)
6th Century: Symmachian Forgeries (Cath. Ency., XIV, 378.)
7th Century: Augustine -- three forged. (Cath. Ency. II, 79; I, 629; XI, 623.)
8th Century: Liber Pontificalis "took over" Liberian -- Catalogue -- used Clementine Recog. (Cath. Ency., IX, 225) reforged.
9th Century: Donation of Constantine (Cath. Ency., VII, 539; Short History, 82, Cath. Dict., 165, De Montor, I, 73.)
9th Century: False Decretals of Isadore (Cath. Ency., V, 773)
10th Century: Deed of Gift To Sylvester II (Cath. Dict. , 338, 339; XIV, 371)
12th Century: Apoc. Acts of Apostles; Acts of Peter and Paul (Cath. Ency., I, 610-13.)
13th Century: Prayer of Manasses -- quoted from Latin Bible by St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa, Third Part, Third Number, 87.)
14th Century: Bonaventure's writings -- several works forgeries (Cath. Ency., II, 654.) 2000 variants in Volume I (10 volumes).
14th Century: Forged Decree of the Council of Vienna 13 (Disciplinary Decrees of General Council, 429.
14th Century: Works of Duns Scotus (Cath. Ency., V, 195).
14th Century: Works of Thomas (Cath. Encly., XIV, 666; Outline of Dog. Theology, II, 564.)
15th Century: Alan DeRupe -- Rosary a forgery -- St. Dominic (Devotion of Holy Rosary, 52. Cath. Ency., XIII, 186; Catholic Facts, 86.)
16th Century: Clement VIII & St. Bellarmine's Lie In Preface To Vulgate Bible (Cath. Ency., II, 411, 412, popess Joan -- falsifying history.)
18th Century: Irenaeus (Pfaff) (Cath. Ency., VIII, 131.)
19th Century: Leo XIII approves DeRupe's forgery (Cath. Ency., XIII, 186, Catholic Facts, 86.)
20th Century: Liguori -- Glories of Mary (new addition a forgery!!)
20th Century: Assumption of the Virgin -- based on Dionysus, a forgery. (Cath. Ency. , I, 608.)