Do Catholics read New Testament psalms proverbs

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The ESV (English Standard Version) is not on the list of USCCB-approved translations for Catholics at the USCCB website, here.
 
I love that your heart is in the right place. I used to read those little green Gideon bibles when I was a teen. I never even wondered whether it should be Catholic. I think it’s beautiful that you are wondering that. But I will say that since Gods word is so fully alive, if there is someone you think may benefit from reading the Holy Gospels my vote is to follow that nudge and offer them that Bible.
Nothing will ever remove me from my Catholic faith after all I’ve been through but Ravi Zacharias and other non Catholics gave me the nudge to return to our Holy Mother church.
 
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It sounds like a Gideon ESV mini Bible. Perfectly fine to read and give away…reading that is better than reading nothing. Go ahead and give it to someone that you think might like it.
 
It’s the same New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs.(No difference between Catholic and Protestant versions.)
 
I downloaded onto my phone Universalis. It contains the Liturgy of the Hours and Mass Readings, non USA. Scripture readings are taken from the Jerusalem Bible, this is the bible that EWTN Mother Angelica uses and reads. The psalms are the Grail translation, which many monks use.
The Holy Bible I have and read at home is the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition which like very much, the translation. The official bible of the Catholic Church, and what is read in Mass, is The New American Bible.
the Catholic Bible is different from the Bible used by Protestants . … The additional books in the Catholic Bible are known as the Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha or 2nd Cannon. They are Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), and Baruch.
These 7 books were removed by Martin Luther, remain in the Catholic Bibles and are the difference between Protestant and Catholic Bibles.
I do not know if there is difference in the psalms, however I enjoy reading what the Catholic order monks read, the Grail Psalms. beautiful.
 
psalms and proverbs are from the Old Testament.

Can you give an example of what you regard as a New Testament psalm
 
The mini Gideon Bibles are comprised of the NT plus the Books of Psalms and Proverbs for devotional reading.
 
I got one of these at my college a couple weeks or so ago, and it’s orange which matches my school colors ☺️ I don’t like the translation compared to my New American revised edition, but it’s nice to carry around and have close if I have the sudden urge to look up one of the many bible verses on signs and things scattered around campus. And quite frankly it’s just adorable
 
This is so funny! My grandson went to the county fair yesterday and came home with this same little book of the New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs. It is orange and is from The Gideons International - Commemorating more than 100 years of scripture distribution.
On the inside of the front cover it says THIS BOOK NOT TO BE SOLD.
So there must be a campaign to hand them out.
 
Do you mean the little NT/Psalms/Proverbs books given out by the Gideons? I would not hand those on as they give a teaching printed inside on the “Sinner’s Prayer” that is not consistent with Catholic Teaching.

If, on the other hand, this is a publication that is not printed with questionable “helps”, of course give it away!
 
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No, I would never pass these on to another
Catholic. I might leave it somewhere for someone to find.
 
I used to really like these pocket bibles. It is probably my favorite thing to come out of Protestantism. I would keep one in my pocket. I had the same orange one or a brown one. However other posters are correct that there is doctrine in the added material that is in conflict with the Catholic faith. You can still read it but know what you are getting into. Still in today’s age it is more practical to have a catholic text on your electronic device but the little Gideon pocket bibles are really charming. And sometimes if you are incarcerated or in an institution it is the only bible you can get. But no they are not that valid unfortunately. This is primarily an American phenomenon.
 
My dad was an Army chaplain so we always had the Army-green colored ones around. They are charming and sentimental to me. That was before cell phones…those little pocket Bibles were so nice to have in a pinch. 😊
 
This is a fair question for newcomers to the faith (or those just returning) to ask. Yes, we read both- in fact, we wrote the New Testament and compiled all 73 books that made up the ancient canon of Scripture, and make up the Catholic canon today.

It’s fine to read a “protestant” translation, just be aware that the footnotes sometimes won’t represent historical Christian teaching (Catholicism).
 
I think it’s fine to read them. The most recent batch of Gideon’s NT + Psalms/Proverbs are of the ESV translation with a slight modification to fit the Textus Receptus family (as noted somewhere in the preface). The early 80s-90s version of those little NTs were of the NKJV translation (look for the Thomas Nelson copyright 1982 somewhere in the first pages), and then there are some older ones that are KJV.

Your original question is if Catholics read these little New Testaments that you find all around, and the answer is yes – I’m a Catholic and I store and carry these gems everywhere. I’m a big fan of compact bibles that you can take on the go, but unfortunately there are no Catholic companies that publish a 4 x 5 inch sized NT – closest things are Scepter’s RSVCE and Sinag-tala’s Confraternity which are probably soon-to-be out of print anyway.

Carry one around. Use it to refer to passages or in discussion with other Christians. You and yours should be able to receive God’s truth using any of these English translations. God bless.
 
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So there must be a campaign to hand them out.
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This is what the Gideons do - they distribute these new testaments in elementary, high schools, colleges. I still have my brown cover copy from back in the early 60s. This is the group that places Bibles in hotel rooms. At one point, they were green. They also provide them for the military,
 
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