Lois wrote "I could go on about why these books are in the Catholic (and Orthodox) Bibles and not in Protestant ones if people want. But it would be very long, so I won't unless people want."
Mind if I do it for you? No? OK, here goes.
When the Protestant thing was getting under way, they felt the need to differentiate themselves in as many ways as possible from the "Catholics," a term which includes the Church of England, another story there, for sure.
They decided that their "real" Bible, would include an Old Testament, canonical books written Before the Common Era (BCE) in Hebrew, and a New Tesatement, composed of the canonical books written about Jesus in Greek.
The Aprocrypha, which was written BCE, in Greek, was left out. I don't know about other Christian denominations, but the Presbyterian Church (USA) considers the Apocrypha to be "not authoritative, but useful for teaching."
Raised Catholic, Presbyterian since 1979, I always buy Bibles with the Apocrypha.
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