Radrianta:
Perhaps you have different editions than I do, but I find your remarks to incorrectly characterize the Navarre.
The 3-volume hardcover NT set of the Navarre (the “Reader’s Edition”) does not contain the Vulgate. You can easily verify this by looking at the first volume of the set,
The Gospels and Acts of the Apostles.
The paperback volumes do have the New Vulgate, but in the most recent (3rd) editions, the New Vulgate is printed at the rear of the book, where it is not convenient to consult. You can easily verify this by using the
Table of Contents of the St. Luke’s Gospel.
The very short commentary you are mentioning is likely associated with the one-volume “Compact Edition”. Again,
you can look inside the book and verify that. This “Compact Edition” also lacks the Vulgate.
The “Expanded Edition” is the only NT edition in print that contains the English RSV-CE, the New Vulgate, and the annotations on a single page together. Again, you can verify this
by looking at a sample passage. It is true that the “Expanded Edition” does omit some annotations (although not nearly so many as you seem to indicate – with the notable exception of the synoptic passages of the gospels – where a single annotation is given rather than multiple annotations at each book.) Perhaps you are confused because the “Expanded Edition” tends to group annotations together according to paragraph passages in the RSV-CE – but I think you will find that most (but not all) of the text is present. Further, the “Expanded Edition” adds material to annotations, notably references to the CCC.
The “Expanded Edition” is awkward in some ways (it is significantly larger than hardcover volumes.) However, if you wish to have the English, the annotations, and the New Vulgate all on a single page, it is really your only choice. If you don’t need the New Vulgate, then it is a bit of a toss-up whether the “Expanded Edition” is an improvement over the 3-volume “Reader’s Edition” hardcover set. The 3-volume set is easier to use, and has slightly more focused annotations, but it lacks cross-references to the CCC and is only printed in one color.
(Perhaps you are also conflating the the NT volumes with the 7-volume OT set. The OT [hardcover] set does contain the RSV-CE, annotations, and the New Vulgate in the configuration you mention.)
