What is the Catholic Holy Bible?

Answer 1

Catholic Answer

The Holy Bible used by the Catholic Church contains the entire New Testament and uses the Old Testament that was used by Our Blessed Lord, commonly known as the Septuagint. Catholics not only believe in The Bible, they are the ones who wrote and approved it. The Bible as used by all Christians was first acknowledged by the Church at the Council of Rome by Pope Damasus in 390 A.D. The truncated Bible used by protestants nowadays does not deserve the term "Holy Bible" as they have deliberately violated the command of the Bible itself "not to add or remove any words" - Revelation 22:18.

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

IV. The Canon of Scripture

120. It was by the apostolic Tradition that the church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books. (Cf. Dei Verbum 8§ 3) This complete list is called the canon of Scripture. It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if we count Jeremiah and Lamentations as one) and 27 for the New. (Cf. Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum {1965})

The Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Ester, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hose4a, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.

The New Testament: the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the Acts of the Apostles, the Letters of St. Paul to the Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, the Letter to the Hebrews, the Letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, and 3 John, and Jude, and Revelation (the Apocalypse).

Answer 2

The official Bible of the Catholic Church is the Vulgate, the Latin version of the Bible compiled by St. Jerome in the late 4th century. A revised form of the New American Bible is the only English translation permitted for use in the liturgy, but the Catholic Church has approved several other versions for private use, such as the Douai-Rheims version, the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, and the Jerusalem Bible.