The Catholic Church primarily uses the New American Bible (NAB) for its official teachings and liturgical readings.
The Catholic Church primarily uses the New American Bible (NAB) for its official liturgical readings and teachings.
Currently, three translations are approved for Catholic liturgical use: the New Jerusalem, the Revised Standard Edition (RSV), and the New American Bible (NAB)
The "official" Catholic version of the Bible is the New Vulgate Bible, which is the official Latin translation of the Sacred Scriptures based on the Septuagint, which was the Greek translation that Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, used when He was quoting from the Old Testament, and from the original Latin translation made by St. Jerome, of the Greek New Testament books.
AnswerThe Latin translation of the Bible by Jerome is called the Vulgate.
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The official title for a Catholic priest is "Reverend Father."
The "best" Bible is the one that you use. The official Bible for the Catholic Church is the New Vulgate, an updating of St. Jerome's Latin translation of the Sacred Scriptures. The Old Testament is the Septuagint, the Greek translation that Our Blessed Lord used, and is used for most of the quotes in the New Testament. The official New Testament is the the New Vulgate.
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Catholics most often refer to the Bible as "The Holy Bible". The official version of the Catholic Bible is the Latin Vulgate, the most accurate translation of the Bible ever done. In English, the most accurate version is the Douay Rheims translation, though one can get the Challoner version as the English is rather archiac in the original.
The official translation or literal translation?
Yes there is one in Westminster in London, England. Though these churches are operated on the assumption that the congregation are all following the Church's official teachings regarding homosexuality, namely celibacy etc.
.Answer by a CatholicAs of summer 2007, approximately 24% of the Americans in the United States were Catholics. For the most part, it is only the Catholic Church who has an official liturgical calendar that includes Lent although some protestants are getting into the act, and others, like the Episcopal Church have always observed Lent. A small minority (less than 1%) are Orthodox and other Christian religions that also observe Lent.