RSV-SCE no imprimatur?

[alavenderluvbug]

On the RSV-SCE of the bible I don’t see an imprimatur; is there one on the RSV-CE edition?
The RSV-SCE does say on one of the first pages “With ecclesiastical approval of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops” Is this the same as an imprimatur?

If it doesn’t have an imprimatur should I not use it?

 

[mccorm45]

No, you are fine. The reply below is from the Ignatius sight:

Reply from Ignatius Press:
"There are no approval issues in the Second Edition.
Proposed changes were sent to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (which was then the National Conference of Catholic Bishops) and we were told that changes were of a sufficiently editorial nature to support retention of the previously granted Imprimatur. Later changes, made in conformity with translation guidelines of the Vatican document, Liturgiam Authenticam, were approved directly by the Congregation for Divine Worship, which also reviewed all of the text.
The RSV, Second Catholic Edition, is the only recent English Bible translation that both uses standard (non-feminist) English and conforms to translation guidelines found in Liturgiam Authenticam. We took changes which its author, the Congregation for Divine Worship, recommended for the Lectionary and incorporated them into the biblical texts. Other documents were not sought out.

As indicated on the Frontispiece, the Second Edition was published in 2006 “With ecclesiastical approval of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops”. "
insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2006/02/the_new_ignatiu.html

 

[alavenderluvbug]

Thank you for the information. I was going to be upset if I couldn’t use this bible because I love it!

 

[Jehuty_X]

On the RSV-SCE of the bible I don’t see an imprimatur; is there one on the RSV-CE edition?
The RSV-SCE does say on one of the first pages “With ecclesiastical approval of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops” Is this the same as an imprimatur?

If it doesn’t have an imprimatur should I not use it?

i have a bible (la biblia de jerusalén) that does not have the nihil obstat and imprimatur either.

 

[Manfred]

i have a bible (la biblia de jerusalén) that does not have the nihil obstat and imprimatur either.

I don’t know about any French-language “reader’s editions” of the Jerusalem Bible, but the original 1966 English-language edition has both a nihil obstat and imprimatur.

If your edition is as you claim it is, then it’s another example of rampant ecumenism.

 

[Jehuty_X]

I don’t know about any French-language “reader’s editions” of the Jerusalem Bible, but the original 1966 English-language edition has both a nihil obstat and imprimatur.

If your edition is as you claim it is, then it’s another example of rampant ecumenism.

uh, i was not writing about the french version. the version of the jerusalem bible that i was writing about is the castillian version (third edition) and it does not contain the nihil obstat and imprimatur on it. the second edition does.

 

[Ron_Conte]

Since the new code of Canon Law was signed into law in 1983 approval of Bible translations is not subject to the imprimatur of the local Bishop, but instead to the approval of the Bishops’ Conference or the Holy See.

The RSVCE is approved by the USCCB. However, it is my understanding that they approved it without any formal review.
usccb.org/dpp/translations.htm

The Congregation for Divine Worship (CDW) approved of an RSVCE2 edition of the Lectionary, with changes to the RSVCE1. The RSVCE2 editors then applied similar changes throughout the remainder of the Bible (but without formal approval from the CDW).