Until Pius XII issued Divino Afflante Spiritu in 1943, Catholic biblical scholars were limited to using the Vulgate as their text. Textual criticism was forbidden. Indeed, Leo XIII's Providentissimus Deus (1893) insisted on the same sort of biblical literalism as the most fundamentalist of Protestants do.

Saying that you are ignorant of history is not an attack on you; it is a statement of demonstrated fact.