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apart from the Douay bible, what other bibles are approved by the Catholic church?

Can you provide me a link that with your answer to I can check it’s official?

Thank you
 
Well, the one they use for Mass is the New American Bible NAB, at usccb.org/nab/bible/index.shtml

Since we use it for Mass, I would hope it’s “approved,” though I could be wrong on some technicality.

Alan
 
If I want a simple modern translation I use The New Jerusalem Bible. This is a Catholic Bible.
 
Thank you Alain and Saintlucy… I was really looking for something like a vatican letter or something that confirms that these bibles are indeed approved by the church. Like a notice or a directive or anything official…do you know of a site like that?

Thanks very much
Cashue
 
+Mother Angelica of worldwide EWTN fame loved and used the . . . **1966 Jerusalem Bible ** (a paraphrase not a word for word translation) . . . in her teaching . . . but frequently sounded serious warnings about the . . . loss of Sacred Truth (Holy Thoughts of God) . . . via the unholy use of . . . “inclusive language” . . . incorporated into ALL this Bible’s versions thereafter . . .

:bible1: The Holy Bible (Douay Rheims Version [Douai-Rheims], Revised by Bishop Richard Challoner) is a wonderful translation . . . it was first translated . . . word for word . . . from the Latin Vulgate, the Catholic Church’s Official Bible. Bishop Challoner’s edition phrases it to make it more reader-friendly. It was the only English Catholic Bible for over 300 years and has been greatly blessed of God as such. The original Latin translation is largely the result of the **Holy Spirit’s **inspiration and annointing of the labors of the blessed St. Jerome . . . and some of the manuscripts **St. Jerome **used are no longer in existence.

Pope Pius XII stated that the
Holy :bible1: Bible
Latin Vulgate Translation
was **
“free from any error whatsoever in matters of faith and morals.”**
With **St. Jerome **. . . **who as well as being a SAINT is a HOLY DOCTOR of the Catholic Church . . . and . . . ** the Vicar of Christ’s declaration of support . . . vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_30091943_divino-afflante-spiritu_en.html . . . you can’t go wrong with this Bible . . .

Below are comments from the **Eternal Word Television Network’s ** ewtn.com website . . . which also contain some examples of the Holy See’s gravely serious definitive and corrective point of view on some Biblical translations on the market today.

:bible1: Douai-Rheims [Douay-Rheims]. The original Catholic Bible in English, pre-dating the King James Version (1611). It was translated from the Latin Vulgate, the Church’s official Scripture text, by English Catholics in exile on the continent. The NT [New Testament] was completed and published in 1582 when the English College (the seminary for English Catholics) was located at Rheims. The Old Testament was published in 1610 when the College was located at Douai.​

The renown teaching priest Father John Corapi ** endorses and highly recommends the ORIGINAL Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition ** of Sacred :bible1: Scripture as his favored modern English translation . . . please note that this is the ORIGINAL RSV-CE.
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:bible1: Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition (RSV-CE).Considered the best combination of literal (formal equivalence translation) and literary by many orthodox Catholic scholars. Published today by Ignatius Press (Ignatius Bible) and Scepter Press …​
**​

The enemy of souls most unholy spirit has used the grave and disordered error of “inclusive language” (stripping God the Holy Spirit’s designated use of masculine and feminine words from text re God and mankind and neutering them) to make serious inroads in corrupting that which the **God the Holy Spirit **has entrusted to Christ’s Most Holy Apostolic Roman Catholic Church . . . when/if purchasing a Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition be very careful not to request the NEW RSV-CE . . . which is being heavily promoted nowadays and contains real errors . . . the NAB version has a similar problem . . .

New Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition (1989). An adaptation for Catholic use of the NRSV of the National Council of the Churches of Christ. Although used in the American edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it was rejected for liturgical use by the Holy See owing to inclusive language … ******​

**NAB with Revised Psalms and Revised New Testament (1991) [also a paraphrase not a word for word translation]. It was **due to the use of vertical inclusive language **(re: God and Christ) and some uses of horizontal inclusive language (re: human beings), that the Holy See rejected this text as the basis of a revised Lectionary for the United States. This is the version of the NAB currently on sale in the United States. ******
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. . . all for Jesus+
St. Jerome please pray for us+
thank You Lord for Thy Wonderful Holy Word+​
 
Cashue said:
Thank you Alain and Saintlucy… I was really looking for something like a vatican letter or something that confirms that these bibles are indeed approved by the church. Like a notice or a directive or anything official…do you know of a site like that?

Thanks very much
Cashue
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See here.
 
Cashue said:
Thank you Alain and Saintlucy… I was really looking for something like a vatican letter or something that confirms that these bibles are indeed approved by the church. Like a notice or a directive or anything official…do you know of a site like that?

Thanks very much
Cashue
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I don’t know about a list, but on the Vatican web site I’ve seen the “New American Bible for Catholics” mentioned. On the copywrite page of the CCC 2nd Edition revised in accordance with the official Latin text promulgated by Pope John Paul II, the Revised Standard Version (RSV for Catholics) is used in footnotes.

Go to EWTN.com . Their catalogue has several different Bibles, that have Imprimaturs.
They only sell Catholic Bibles .
 
Cashue said:
apart from the Douay bible, what other bibles are approved by the Catholic church?

Can you provide me a link that with your answer to I can check it’s official?

Thank you
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here is one resource, the sticky just above this forum, scroll down to translations, English versions
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=237484

and here is the guide to bible translations on the CA Homepage library
just search under bible translations and you will get dozens of great reference articles

[catholic.com/library/Bible_Translations_Guide.asp](http://www.catholic.com/library/Bible_Translations_Guide.asp)
 
The Translation of the Holy Bible, by Mons. Ronald Knox, is one of my absolute favourites, behind the Douay-Rheims. The Knox translation, and the DR are approved by the church. In Canada, the NRSV is used in the lectionary, though, it is distorted by inclusive language. The Jerusalem Bible, is approved. The New Jerusalem Bible is approved, though, I don’t know if it has inclusive language or not. The Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition versions 1 and 2 are approved.
 
LoyalViews said:
The Translation of the Holy Bible, by Mons. Ronald Knox, is one of my absolute favourites, behind the Douay-Rheims. The Knox translation, and the DR are approved by the church. In Canada, the NRSV is used in the lectionary, though, it is distorted by inclusive language. The Jerusalem Bible, is approved. The New Jerusalem Bible is approved, though, I don’t know if it has inclusive language or not. The Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition versions 1 and 2 are approved.
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The Knox is NOT easy to find even on ebay and rare book sites. Baronius press is stated to want to have their edition of his translation out sometime this year.

The DR and RSV-CE are both excellent translations. The RSV is literal yet very literary. Its my favorite modern translation by far. The ESV is an ‘upgrade’ of the RSV, but not a Catholic translation, and only one edition is available with the Apocrypha (or DC for us Catholics).
I also have a NT original DR version (not Chanoler revised but the 1583 version) and it is very interesting. Its practically a study bible, with lots of comments on those damn heretics!(kind of funny now but then I could only imagine what they were going through being criminals deserving of capital punishment for being Catholic. That’s why its called Douay-Rheims as that’s were the translations took place. Well at least they got to go to France. France aint so bad).
 
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