Are all Catholic Bibles based and translated from an original translation?

[ajpirc]

Is there a Bible that the Holy See uses to verify all translations of all Catholic Bibles? I’ve heard that the Vatican has the original Latin Bible that St. Jerome translated from Greek, but I don’t know if it’s true. If they do, would all Bibles have to agree with this one and be verified by the Holy See to be called a Catholic Bible?

 

[laszlo]

Is there a Bible that the Holy See uses to verify all translations of all Catholic Bibles? I’ve heard that the Vatican has the original Latin Bible that St. Jerome translated from Greek, but I don’t know if it’s true. If they do, would all Bibles have to agree with this one and be verified by the Holy See to be called a Catholic Bible?

The Council of Trident defined (pro tempore binding but not infallible) that the Vulgata is to be used for reading, interpreting and translating. The closest to that is the Clementine Vulgata vulsearch.sourceforge.net/html/index.html

This has some differences from that what St Jerome translated. In my opinion the closest to the St Jerome translation is the Stuttgart Vulgata what is found at drbo.org/lvb/index.htm

Pius XII acknowledged that the Jerome’s Vulgata is not the best coverage of the original Hebrew and Greek text of the Bible, so allowed other translations. As Latin standard as for now the Nova Vulgata is accepted
vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/nova-vulgata_index_lt.html

but the source of the translations is the Hebrew and Greek critical editions.

 

[ProVobis]

Is there a Bible that the Holy See uses to verify all translations of all Catholic Bibles? I’ve heard that the Vatican has the original Latin Bible that St. Jerome translated from Greek, but I don’t know if it’s true. If they do, would all Bibles have to agree with this one and be verified by the Holy See to be called a Catholic Bible?

It is probably more accurate to say St. Jerome consolidated the previous Latin (Vetus Latina) with the Greek Vulgate and the Hebrew (and Aramaic) texts as well. The Church tried to preserve the works of St. Jerome but errors in copying (mostly by the monks) crept in over time so ultimately when the printing presses started running a version was created and was able to be preserved better. This was the Clementine version of the Latin Vulgate, which the Council of Trent deemed as the standard Bible. That was the official version up until the post-Vatican II Novus Vulgata.