Catholic Scriptural Resources
Bibles
This report has
information on Catholic translations of the Bible on-line.
- The Bible Gateway at gospelcom.net has most of the current complete on-line Bibles, including the Revised Standard Version and Vulgate.
- The Vulgate Bible of St. Jerome has been the standard
Latin Bible for the Church for most of its history (though I'm told that
a 1979 revised Vulgate is now the standard.) The Vulgate is
based in part on the Greek
Septuagint, used by the New Testament writers. Here's
where you can find copies of St. Jerome's Vulgate:
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The Douay-Rheims Bible is an English translation of the Vulgate made in the 16th and 17th centuries, and then revised by Challoner in the 18th century. It was the most commonly used Catholic English Bible through the mid-20th century. There are two sites that are putting it up:
- EWTN has a complete version,
though the files are copyrighted and for personal use only.
- Dan Connolly has a site with another copy. The New Testament is complete, the Old Testament is still under construction. It does not have the same usage restrictions as EWTN's copy.
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John Mark Ockerbloom <spok+catholic@cs.cmu.edu> -- Last updated 25-Aug-1997