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Colorad007
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I found an edition of the Douay-Rheims, Challoner Bible on Kindle,but it does not have an imprimatur. Is it permissible to read, study, and generally use it, without the imprimatur?
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Zenkai
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Sure, I don’t see why you couldn’t. You can use any translation you want.I found an edition of the Douay-Rheims, Challoner Bible on Kindle,but it does not have an imprimatur. Is it permissible to read, study, and generally use it, without the imprimatur?
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Khalid
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Yes. It’s a Catholic translation, and, in my opinion, the best translation currently available.
I use plenty of Protestant translations without the imprimatur, and with some of the stuff that gets imprimatur today (like the NAB, two imprimaturs and a Papal blessing, the NJBC, imprimatur’d by the author), it doesn’t mean very much, when Protestant Bibles such as the NASB and ESV are much less potentially damaging to faith and morals. The imprimatur has become more of a rubber stamp than an actual process of faithful censorship since VII and the rescinding of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
I use plenty of Protestant translations without the imprimatur, and with some of the stuff that gets imprimatur today (like the NAB, two imprimaturs and a Papal blessing, the NJBC, imprimatur’d by the author), it doesn’t mean very much, when Protestant Bibles such as the NASB and ESV are much less potentially damaging to faith and morals. The imprimatur has become more of a rubber stamp than an actual process of faithful censorship since VII and the rescinding of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
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Hmm. If a work itself has been granted an imprimatur, but the imprimatur happens to not be printed on some copies, does that make that copy unapproved and e.g. nullify any indulgences? I.e. does the imprimatur apply to the content of the work, or to the actual physical copy? E.g. I believe that, at least in the US, you can (assuming you have the right to publish it), publish a copyrighted work but omit the copyright notice, and the fact that you omitted the notice doesn’t make the copies copyright-free - they are still copyrighted. I could make it ridiculous by asking what happens if you had a physical Bible with imprimatur and your child tore the imprimatur out - is the Bible now non-Catholic?
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