What do I know...I'm not really " in this thread" , but I do still always read it.
( I must say , I have to admire your 'stickability' :) )
Anyway, my answer would be:-
There were NO CATHOLICS either....there were just Christians.
Kind of makes us think, doesn't it!! If not, is should!! 
This is absolutely
false - and something that most Protestants have been
spoonfed for most of their lives.
I don't blame you for
learning this - but, as an adult - you really should do some
research about these
falsehoods you've been raised on.
Here's a little
background on the canonization of Scripture.
Prior to the Canon being declared -
MANY Books were considered
Scripture and read before congregations for about
300 years.
Among these were apocryphal works like the
Shepherd of Hermas, The Epistle of Barnabas, and the
Letter of Clement, among others.
There was much
debate over those first few centuries and many
"canons" from different individuals. The problem was that no
individual had the
Authority to make this decision. Only the
Church did.
During a period of
37 years at the end of the 4th and the turn of
the 5th century, the Canon of Scripture was formally declared and confirmed
FIVE times. It is the
same canon of Scripture that was around during the
Protestant Revolt and that is
still in use today by the Catholic Church. It was during the so-called
Reformation and subsequent periods that
rebellious, prideful men had problems with the canon and decided that some of the books were uninspired.
Luther wanted to
remove several books including
Hebrews, James, Jude and
Revelation.
Calvin and
Zwingli did not believe
Revelation to be inspired and wanted to remove it as well.
The
Synod of Rome (382) is where the canon was first formally identified. It was confirmed at the
Synod of Hippo eleven years later
(393). At the
Council (or Synod) of Carthage (397), it was yet again confirmed. The bishops wrote at the end of their document,
"But let Church beyond sea (Rome) be consulted about confirming this canon". There were
44 bishops, including
St. Augustine who signed the document.
7 years later, in
405, in a letter from
Pope Innocent I to Exsuperius, Bishop of Toulouse, he reiterated the canon. 14 years after that, at the
2nd Council (Synod) of Carthage (419) the canon was again formally confirmed.
The Canon of Scripture was
officially closed at the
Council of Trent in the 16th century because of the
perversions happening within
Protestantism and the random
editing and
deleting of books from the Canon.
You
don't have to believe
me. Just research it
yourself and you'll see that
everything I just said is historically accurate.
