Info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Reformation#The_Council_of_Trent

The Orthodox Church makes use of them (and of their historic positions interspersed with the different books of the OT, no longer accrued right into a separate team between the OT and NT) because of the fact the Deuterocanonical books have been in use by utilising Christianity from its beginning up. it particularly is a Protestant fiction that the Catholic church *further the books to the Bible. They have been there from the beginning up, as they have been portion of the Jewish scriptures that the church inherited from Judaism. A later Jewish council demoted the Deurocanonical books because of the fact they wanted to deemphasize cloth Christians have been utilising against them. The Protestants accompanied a exceedingly anti-Christian canon! The Orthodox Church’s respected version of the OT is the Septuagint (“LXX”) Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures — even at present. the interpretation grew to become into made by utilising Jews for use interior the Greek-conversing portion of the Roman Empire long before the start of Christ and the emergence of Christianity. The Septuagint grew to become into in use on the time of Christ, and that’s what the early church accompanied. they had no might desire to undertake another scriptures than they inherited. advantages. /Orthodox