We will provide you with any help you need. There are a variety of Catholic Bibles. Latin Vulgate(Clementine), Nova Vulgata, Douay-Rheims, Confraternity, Ronald Knox Translation, Jerusalem Bible, RSV-CE, New American Bible, New Jerusalem Bible, NRSV among other works: Haydock Bible Commentary(Douay-Rheims text), Ignatius Study Bible, Christian Communty Bible, Navarre series, Good News Translation. Most likely you aren’t going to find the Confraternity or Ronald Knox right now. Baronius Press will be releasing one this coming year of the Ronald Knox Translation. For a newbie like you, I recommend the Jerusalem Bible or New American. Not the best Bibles that the Catholics have to offer, but easy to start out with. The more advanced I recommend the Douay-Rheims or if you could get a fully copy of the Douay-Confraternity on ebay or something like that. In my personal opinion I would stay away from the RSV-CE, RSV-2CE, NRSV and Good News Translation. The GNT is just plain awful translation. The NRSV has too much inclusive language and like the RSV-CE and 2CE they derive from Protestant origins. I prefer to use strictly Catholic based editions. I have moved up a step and started reading the Clementine Vulgate with my Douay-Rheims. I would recommend the Clementine over the Nova Vulgata(which is just online and not print form). The Nova Vulgata departs from the previous editions of the Vulgate. The Vulgate in which St. Jerome translated from comes from certain texts and one those lines the Vulgate was deemed authentic at the Council of Trent, which in itself reaffirmed all Catholic beliefs at that point. Modern Bibles such as the NAB and RSV-CE use “original” text found many centuries later. In Pope Pius XII encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu, he encourages Bibles to be based off of “original” text rather than the Vulgate, but still gives reverence to the Latin Vulgate and we aren’t to reject the Vulgate. Hope this helps out as far as scripture decided goes.
