The Apocrypha

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The 14 or 15 books of the Apocrypha that the RC Church adds to the bible and pronounces are equally inspired and authoritative, and must be accepted by all RCs as genuine under penalty of mortal sin.

However, there is no record that Jesus or any of the apostles ever quoted from the Apocryphal books or made any reference to them, although they undoubtedly knew of them.
It seems obvious that Jesus or the apostles did not regard the Apocrypha as scripture.
The RCC has claimed that protestants cut those books out of scripture, but it seems obvious if anyone cut those books out, it was Jesus.

 

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Even the RCC didn't always agree about the Apocrypha. Pope Gregory the Great declared that First Maccabees, an Apocryphal book, is not canonical. Cardinal Zomenes, in his Polyglot Bible, just before the Council of Trent, excluded the Apocrypha, and his work was approved by pope Leo X. Could these popes have been mistaken or not? If they were correct, the decision of the Council of Trent was wrong. If they were wrong, where is the pope's infallibility as a teacher of doctrine? (Fundamental Protestant Doctrines, I, p.4).