What don't you like about NAB?

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My apologies, as well. :o

MDT, I have answered you in the other thread.
 
The atrocious, heretical footnotes.

One that comes to mind is for Gen 38:8-10:
Then Judah said to Onan, “Unite with your brother’s widow, in fulfillment of your duty as brother-in-law, and thus preserve your brother’s line.” Onan, however, knew that the descendants would not be counted as his; so whenever he had relations with his brother’s widow, he wasted his seed on the ground, to avoid contributing offspring for his brother.
What he did greatly offended the LORD, and the LORD took his life too.
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Obviously, this passage is used by the Church as a powerful argument against the practice of contraception. But here’s the footnote:
Preserve your brother’s line: literally “raise up seed for your brother.” The ancient Israelites regarded as very important their law of levirate, or “brother-in-law” marriage; see notes on Deut 25:5; Ruth 2:20. In the present story, it is primarily Onan’s violation of this law, rather than the means he used to circumvent it, that brought on him God’s displeasure (Genesis 38:9-10).
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But the worst of the worst is the footnote for John 6:60-71:
These verses refer more to themes of John 6:35-50 than to those of John 6:51-58 and seem to be addressed to members of the Johannine community who found it difficult to accept the high christology reflected in the bread of life discourse.
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That amounts to Protestant Apologetics 101 -“You see, His disciples didn’t leave because He told them to eat His flesh and drink his blood, but because they didn’t accept Him as Christ.”

Why not just write “Christ is speaking metaphorically in this chapter?”

And this got a bishop’s imprimatur? NIHIL OBSTAT? I was pretty OBSTATed.
 
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