Traditional Catholics: Which Catholic Bible version do you prefer?

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Hello to my fellow traditional Catholics! I have a question for you. Out of the Bible versions listed on the poll, which one do you prefer the most? If yours is not listed, please vote for the “other” option and tell us about it in here.
 
The Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision is my fav. I also like the Confraternity. 👍

The Catholic edition of the RSV is nice… . But it is a protestant translation that has been brought into conformity with Liturgicam Authenticam… its a good and faithful translation and I love it in my Navarre Bible Commentary. But I prefer the Douay.

The NAB is actually a good translation in many ways, but the footnotes are abominable.:mad: The Jerome is good, but I like a more literal translation as opposed to a “thought for thought” translation.

The New Jerome and the NRSV are awash with political correct changes in the name of inclusive language that obfuscate the original text and are VERY distracting 😦

To my mind NOTHING compares with the beauty, poetry, and doctrinal fidelity of the Douay. It is also the most accurate in my opinion. While Chaloner definitely used the best greek sources available at his time, and while it is clearly an entirely new translation/update of the original Douay, it retains the insights gained from Jerome’s Vulgate and is just so very Catholic. No modernism in the notes either. 😃

Jerome was working with manuscripts older than pretty much anything extant today (regarding his NT translation), so I tend to give the Vulgate GREAT reverence and weight. The Douay is incomparable therefore.

My FAVORITE FAVORITE Bible is the Douay Rheims with the Haydock commentary. Simply AMAZING.
 
There is a version called the New English Bible (NEB) which was, as I recall, reasonably decent (a sight better than that aberration called the NAB) but I haven’t seen any reference to it in quite some time and don’t know whatever became of it.
 
You’re probably not going to find any traditionalists that have kind words about the New American Bible or New Revised Standard Version.
 
I am using the Confraternity Version now, and I love it. I learn a lot from it, and it inspires me. But I am going to buy the Douay Rheims version from TAN (I voted for it). What is Haydock’s? Do you think it is the same version with what I am buying from TAN?

I am a just a newbie in Traditionalist thing. And before that, I used the NRSV-CE! No one warned me about it, so I bought it last year. Just last month, I bought the Confraternity Version and I am going to buy the Douay Rheims this March.
 
malphono said:
There is a version called the New English Bible (NEB) which was, as I recall, reasonably decent (a sight better than that aberration called the NAB) but I haven’t seen any reference to it in quite some time and don’t know whatever became of it.
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It has since been revised, and called the Revised English Bible. The NEB was a less literal translation, more like the Jerusalem Bible that way. It is chiefly Brittish, if I recall. The NEB did not use inclusive language, again, that I recall. I presume the revised one does.
 
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I am using the Confraternity Version now, and I love it. I learn a lot from it, and it inspires me. But I am going to buy the Douay Rheims version from TAN (I voted for it). What is Haydock’s? Do you think it is the same version with what I am buying from TAN?

I am a just a newbie in Traditionalist thing. And before that, I used the NRSV-CE! No one warned me about it, so I bought it last year. Just last month, I bought the Confraternity Version and I am going to buy the Douay Rheims this March.
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Haydock wrote a commentary. The Haydock Bible has the Douay on top of the page, and the Rev. George Leo Haydock’s Catholic commentary underneath.

It is an incomparable example of Catholic orthodoxy and Biblical scholarship.

Here is a link to the commentary online

haydock1859.tripod.com/
 
I think the least inaccurate Bibles and my favorite bibles are those that include the Confraternity New Testament–Douay Rheims Challoner Old Testament–and an English translation of the Psalms authorized by Pope Pius XII (Bea Psalter).

Most such bibles were published in the late 40s up until 1956.

I think those bibles are as good as you can get in English without departing too far from the Latin Sciptural Vulgate tradition.

The Vulgate isn’t perfect but it does not err in terms of doctrine and it can be used in all disputations.

While some modern translations might be superior in some instances that involve minor details having come from ancient original language texts–NONE can claim to not err in terms of doctrine compared to the Vulgate when they oppose it.

The Bea Psalter is not perfect but sometimes when it comes to verb tenses it does get some of the Psalms more right than the Gallican Psalter does.

The Confraternity New Testament is not perfect but it does not stray far from the Vulgate and stylistically is simply easier to read than the Douay Rheims Challoner New Testament.

For all these reasons I think this bible–while not perfect–is less flawed than any other
English language bible out there.

I would not argue with some who would say that certain versions of the Latin vulgate would be superior.
 
I strongly prefer the Challoner Douay-Rheims over any other Bible, mostly because it is the only one I trust and the language is beautiful. Occasionally it is harder to understand but I find that because it isn’t every day language, it speaks to me more powerfully and retained in my memory better.

For devotional reading (not study) I sometimes use the Jerusalem Bible and the Knox New Testament.
 
I love both the Douay Rheims and the RSV-CE.

My husband bought me a Douay Rheims after I converted because I kept complaining that the Bible they’d given us at RCIA was so simplified that it was difficult to read (really, they had to change the word “temptation” because it was at too high of a grade level?). It was driving me crazy.

I was a little sad though, because I’d memorized so many psalms when I was little (Baptist upbringing) and they were all so different in the Douay Rheims even though I loved the rest of it! Then we found an RSV-CE and they were pretty much identical to the ones I’d grown up with. I was thrilled!

And my husband’s old Confraternity Bible is wonderful too, but he always has it so I hardly ever see it!

My husband’s favorite seems to be the Jerusalem.
 
Voted RSV (2nd)CE, but also have and use the Douay-Confraternity (also have but rarely use St Joseph’s NAB).
 
The LARGE PRINT EDITION. 😃

Jokes apart I do not a specific preference. Depending on the context I like to go directly to the Latin version.
 
Holly3278 said:
Hello to my fellow traditional Catholics! I have a question for you. Out of the Bible versions listed on the poll, which one do you prefer the most? If yours is not listed, please vote for the “other” option and tell us about it in here.
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I have a set of the Navarre Bible(s). I put it in plural because each of the Gospels is it’s own book. These are wonderful! They have all the passages in Latin as well as English and the footnotes and scripture explanations are taken from Church documents,the fathers and doctors of the Church, and many saints, especially St. J.Escriva. Very insightful!
 
livnlern said:
I have a set of the Navarre Bible(s). I put it in plural because each of the Gospels is it’s own book. These are wonderful! They have all the passages in Latin as well as English and the footnotes and scripture explanations are taken from Church documents,the fathers and doctors of the Church, and many saints, especially St. J.Escriva. Very insightful!
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Got the same setup (only NT though); and the bonus is that the English is the RSV-CE which is my favourite translation. The language is beautiful and dignified, without being archaic. It reminds me of Tolkiens writings. Theres a full Ignatius RSV-CE as well.

Theres a Douay-Rheims, plus a Good News which is used for general searching, to minimise the risk of damaging the RSV. Any Bible version which refers to The Ark of The Covenant as "the Covenant box" isnt much good for anything else. The cute little dragon pictured in The Apocalypse would make you want to have one as a household pet!

Used to have a Ronald Knox, which was translated from the Vulgate and had some good language, but it was destroyed in a fire. It had decent large print!

There ain`t no such animal as a perfect one.

malphono/Pug
Archbishop Sheen said that for Catechetical purposes, his favourite was the New English Bible.
 
I feel like the Douay is our K.J.V. However, I also like when a Bible has inaccuracies(e.g. the Breeches, Bug, or Treacle Bibles; however, I think that those versions are all Protestant). Aside from that, I still do not understand why Esdras and the Prayer of Manasses are not accepted in the Canon.
 
Holly3278 said:
Hello to my fellow traditional Catholics! I have a question for you. Out of the Bible versions listed on the poll, which one do you prefer the most? If yours is not listed, please vote for the “other” option and tell us about it in here.
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Douay Rheims ( Challoner ) Haydock is good as well.
 
I am always suspicious when “New” is in a Biblical translation’s title.
 
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