The Serendipity Bible is a set of protestant Bible study questions set up for personal or small group study of The Bible. The Catholic Serendipity Bible just adds additional questions for the Deuterocanonical books. I personally have not seen a copy of it, but I would check it out with a Catholic Biblical scholar, I am at a large Catholic monastery this weekend and will see if one of the Scripture scholars around here knows anything about it. Amazon lists several positive reviews. My only caveat would be that it seems as if the "discussion questions" are the same for the protestant and Catholic version, the only difference being the addition of the Deuterocanonical books, if this is so, then I wouldn't recommend it as protestants look for entirely different things in the Bible then Catholics do. As this entire program is based on protestant Bible study, I would be extremely hesitant to buy this Bible.
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I checked, do not buy this Bible, it does not have a Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, and it is written and published by a protestant publishing house. Just pass it by.
The term 'catholic' in this sense means 'universal.' In that the Bible is worldwide, it Is catholic. This has nothing to do with the Catholic Church.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe Gospels in the Bible are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The "Catholic Bible" is the Bible as used by the Church for two millenium.
The New Jerusalem Bible is Catholic.
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No, the Book of Enoch is not included in the Catholic Bible.
Roman Catholic AnswerOf course not! There is only one Bible, commonly referred to as the Holy Bible.
THe Gideon International Bible is most certainly not a Bible approved by the Catholic Church.
I recommend the Ignatius Catholic Bible, RSV Second Catholic Edition. Many Catholic scholars and theologians use this Bible and reference from it, however it is easy to read and understand
Roman Catholic AnswerYou are operating with a mistaken assumption. The Catholic Church wrote the Bible, the Catholic Church decided which books were canonical (included in the Bible), and the Catholic Church has conserved the Bible through the centuries. The only ones who changed any Scriptures in the Bible are the protestants, who, after fifteen centuries of a Bible preserved by the Catholic Church came along and threw books out of the Bible, and changed the meanings of books they would not throw out.
The word "catholic" does not appear anywhere in the bible.
Roman Catholic AnswerYes, the Bible contains the book of Ruth.
The version of the Catholic Bible that is considered the most widely used and accepted by the Catholic Church is the New American Bible (NAB).