Gary Michuta's Defense of the Indefensible

Sure. My question is about St. Jerome, and I know you had kind of mentioned him before a little bit, and I've heard that he was, some people have claimed him to be kind of a rogue, and that he got shunned away from Rome, and that he actually, and the Protestant notion that the deuterocanon acquired and shouldn't be in the Bible.

Is that true?

There's truth to that, yes. First of all, the reason that he gives for leaving Rome was that he had a wicked mind, and he said that Rome was so wicked that he was tempted to his mind, and he moved out to the desert.

So, you know, the saints are a lot like us, in many ways. But he went out there for the austerity of it, and to move from the Hebrew and the Greek into the Latin. And yes, he tended to go to the point of not accepting the deuterocanon.

He was an exception, by the way. He stood out from all the other fathers.