The opening page of the Douay-Rheims translation of the Bible contains a curiosity that I’ve never quite been able to figure out. Instead of simply the usual imprimatur/nihil obstat, the copyright ...

On Tuesday, the Feast of St Jerome, I used the occasion to highlight what I see as one of the great hinges of Christian ...

If you read some older English translations of the Bible, like the Catholic Douay-Rheims (pub. 1609) or the Protestant King James (pub. 1611) you come across some passages that seem a bit mysterious.

Versions of the Bible are translations of the Bible into other languages. The following are the most important versions or translations of the Bible. 1. Septuagint. The oldest Greek translation of the ...

A dispute between the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Biblical Association of America over translation royalties has drawn new attention to the New American Bible. The first ...

In the days following U.S. President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, posts on social media claimed that the Bible he used during his swearing-in ceremony is connected to the Masonic Order or the ...

Roman Catholic approaches to the Bible have been revolutionized during the past few decades. In one landmark, a 1943 encyclical from Pope Pius XII ended dependence on the sixth-century Latin text in ...