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The Catholics and some Anglicans give certain Apocryphal books a semi-authorised status. They are compatible with the rest of the Bible, so should not be disregarded, but do not have the same status as the official canonical books. Hence the King James version Apocrypha.
There are a number of other texts, like the heaps of Gnostic gospels which were either never considered, or were definitively rejected from the canon. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene falls into this latter category.
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