On the one hand, you say the church cannot be blamed for the atrocities, but rather, individual sinners.
Then on the other hand, you give full credit to the church for good deeds, like making the Bible available.
Why credit the church with only what is good, but credit bad to individuals only? Does that not amount to hypocrisy ? Was it not the work of different individuals, who made the Bible available?
For example, the Hebrew scriptures were preserved long before Catholicism raised its ugly head.
There is
Sirach
Sirach provides evidence of a collection of sacred scripture similar to portions of the Hebrew Bible. The book, which dates from 180 BCE (and is not included in the Jewish canon), includes a list of names of biblical figures (44–49) in the same order as is found in the Torah and the Nevi'im (Prophets), and which includes the names of some men mentioned in the Ketuvim (Writings). Based on this list of names, some scholars have conjectured that the author, Yeshua ben Sira, had access to, and considered authoritative, the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Job, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets.
The Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) was completed by the 2nd century BCE, and are in acccofd with the Dead Sea Scrolls.
What is noteworthy, is that some individuals "ascribed divine inspiration to its translators". In other words, they felt that God was involved in having these books preserved. Which is interesting.
Greek scriptures were in wide use during the Second Temple period, because few people could read Hebrew at that time. The text of the Greek Old Testament is quoted more often than the original Hebrew Bible text in the Greek New Testament (particularly the Pauline epistles) by the Apostolic Fathers, and later by the Greek Church Fathers.
So how did we get this Greek copy into our many languages today?
Thomson's Translation
Charles Thomson's translation of the bible is a direct translation of the Greek Septuagint version of the Old Testament into English, rare for its time. The work took 19 years to complete and was originally published in 1808. Thomson is credited with having created the work with little to no help from other scholars. Charles Thomson was a Greek scholar, and before the American Revolution, had been a teacher at several prominent schools. Thomson's translation of the entire Greek Bible, excluding the Apocrypha, was published in one thousand sets of four volumes each, the fourth volume being Thomson's translation of the New Testament in that same year. The printer was Jane Aitken of Philadelphia.
I see nothing there about the Catholic Church.
In fact, in
this list, there is mention of individual efforts. No credit is given to the Catholic Church.
Even the KJV is credited to an individual.
To further demonstrate that, consider again, John Wycliffe.
Wycliffe advocated translation of the Bible into the common vernacular. According to tradition, Wycliffe is said to have completed a translation directly from the Vulgate into Middle English – a version now known as Wycliffe's Bible.
He used the Latin Vulgate, a translation the Catholics claim their own, but Wycliffe was opposed by the Catholic church.
In fact...
The Council of Constance declared Wycliffe a heretic on 4 May 1415, and banned his writings, effectively both excommunicating him retroactively and making him an early forerunner of Protestantism. The Council decreed that Wycliffe's works should be burned and his bodily remains removed from consecrated ground. This order, confirmed by Pope Martin V, was carried out in 1428. Wycliffe's corpse was exhumed and burned and the ashes cast into the River Swift, which flows through Lutterworth.
All of this shows that it was not the efforts of the Roman Catholic church, that made the Bible available to the world. It was rather, dedicated individuals who loved God's word, and who wanted people to benefit from it, even at the risk of their life.
Something else you may want to note, is that there are translations today, based off of manuscripts, including the Septuagint.
To note too, of most importance, is the fact that, as it is God's word, God is the one preserving his word. So it really doesn't matter whom he uses to preserve it.
Say it fell into "the wrong hands", God can move anyone to act contrary to what they might intend to do. He did this on many occasions.
He even uses an individual who is in "the wrong place". For example, Rahab - a Canaanite - hid the spies because she knew they were God's people, and she had faith. Likewise, he used individuals in apostate Christianity, to preserve his word. Thus God is credited with making his word available to all people. His witnesses too make themselves available to help sincere people.