The Catholic Church did this with parishioners. For centuries lay people were not to read the Bible on their own. It was written on the intro pages of older Catholic Bibles. This inspired logic was latter omitted from printing as policies, soft spoken of, changed to compete with growing personal Bible study of everyday denominational church people. The Catholic church controlled the political and private narrative on daily affairs. This over reach is the very reason people left Europe for a new continent in the Americas.