Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)

[Funky_R]

I just recently got a Douay-Rheims Bible for my birthday, which is something I've wanted to get for awhile. So I got it, and I was happy. But I also found it was the translation with Bishop Challoner's commentary. I've heard some bad things about it, so my question is that version of the Douay-Rheims Bible still considered Catholic?

[Cam42]

[quote name='Funky_R' date='Mar 19 2006, 10:37 PM']I just recently got a Douay-Rheims Bible for my birthday, which is something I've wanted to get for awhile. So I got it, and I was happy. But I also found it was the translation with Bishop Challoner's commentary. I've heard some bad things about it, so my question is that version of the Douay-Rheims Bible still considered Catholic?
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Yes. It is still Catholic. It has always been Catholic. The commentary that you speak of had it's style borrowed from the King James, but not the content. The reason is that Bishop Challoner was a convert from Protestantism, in England and familiar with the style.

Even though the NAB is more popular in the US, the Douay-Rheims is still the preferred Holy Bible in most of the English speaking world.

For scholarship, I use it when needing a direct translation from the Vulgate, without going to the Latin directly.