is the Catholic Bible...

Try the following link:

http://www.newadvent.org/bible/

It in turn, gives links to the Douay-Rheims and dthe NAB (as well as a Protestant bible.)

The "official" bible of the Catholic Church, as I recall, is the Latin Vulgate of which the Douay-Rheims is a direct English translation of.

Hope that helps...

God bless,

PAX

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Et ego dico tibi quia tu es Petrus et super hanc petram
aedificabo ecclesiam meam et portae inferi non praevalebunt
adversum eam et tibi dabo claves regni caelorum et quodcumque
ligaveris super terram erit ligatum in caelis et quodcumque
solveris super terram erit solutum in caelis.
(Matt 16:18-19 From the Latin Vulgate)

 

Anything but the King James

 

There are several English Version Douay Rheims Bibles. I have 2 of them, the only difference is one has commentary (study bible).


LaRae

 

The New American Bible (NAB) is the version that the Lectionary uses, but many people consider the Revised Standard Version (RSV) to be the best and most beautiful modern translation. Both are officially recognized as suitable, as well as, I think, the New Jerusalem version.

The NAB is at usccb.org, and a google search for "rsv bible" will produce sites for the RSV.

 

The New American Bible (NAB) is the version that the Lectionary uses, but many people consider the Revised Standard Version (RSV) to be the best and most beautiful modern translation. Both are officially recognized as suitable, as well as, I think, the New Jerusalem version.

The NAB is at usccb.org, and a google search for "rsv bible" will produce sites for the RSV. </font>[/QUOTE]I wasn't clear enough -- the Catholic version of the RSV is a little different from the original version (a word changed, or a phrase added here or there). The Catholic version is called the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition (RSV-CE)

 

The New American Bible (NAB) is the version that the Lectionary uses, but many people consider the Revised Standard Version (RSV) to be the best and most beautiful modern translation. Both are officially recognized as suitable, as well as, I think, the New Jerusalem version.

The NAB is at usccb.org, and a google search for "rsv bible" will produce sites for the RSV. </font>[/QUOTE]While the NAB is the English-language lectionary version for the United States, I'm not sure that this holds outside the US; the bishops of, say, the UK, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, or even smaller anglophone jurisdictions like Jamaica, may have their own preferences, or in the absence of a national consensus individual bishops may have promulgated instructions on the subject (for their particular dioceses), or it may be a matter of parochial choice.

As for the RSV, the edition would have to contain the Deuterocanonicals (aka Protestant Apocrypha) in order to pass muster as a Catholic Bible. RSVs with Deuterocanonicals are available, but not very common, in my experience. I think the University of Virginia has an online RSV w/ Apoc, in fact it's a parallel edition with KJV also w/ Apoc on facing frames. Will try to locate the link.

Haruo

 

New American Bible Online (link to US Conference of Catholic Bishops site mentioned above)

Haruo

 

Here's a link to the University of Virginia parallel KJV/RSV w/ Apocrypha I mentioned above; note that in the index of books, they give the Apocrypha after the New Testament, rather than between the Testaments as is the Protestant custom.

Haruo

 

The New American Bible (NAB) is the version that the Lectionary uses, but many people consider the Revised Standard Version (RSV) to be the best and most beautiful modern translation. Both are officially recognized as suitable, as well as, I think, the New Jerusalem version.

The NAB is at usccb.org, and a google search for "rsv bible" will produce sites for the RSV. </font>[/QUOTE]While the NAB is the English-language lectionary version for the United States, I'm not sure that this holds outside the US; the bishops of, say, the UK, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, or even smaller anglophone jurisdictions like Jamaica, may have their own preferences, or in the absence of a national consensus individual bishops may have promulgated instructions on the subject (for their particular dioceses), or it may be a matter of parochial choice.</font>[/QUOTE]Yes, I still occasionally slip and forget, even after 10+ years, that the Internet isn't limited to the boundries of the US!

The RSV-CE version that I mentioned in my second post does, of course, have the Deuterocanonicals. What is interesting is that, as listed in my Oxford RSV, the Deuterocanonicals are not exactly the same as the Apocrypha. If anybody is interested I can look up the differences.