The Catholic Bible is the Bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

 used by Catholics and typically refers to the Douay-Rheims Bible (16th century), or to those Bible translations which contain the deuterocanonical books

Deuterocanonical books

Deuterocanonical books is a term used since the sixteenth century in the Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity to describe certain books and passages of the Christian Old Testament that are not part of the Hebrew Bible. The term is used in contrast to the protocanonical books, which are...

 found in the Latin Vulgate

Vulgate

The Vulgate is a late 4th-century Latin translation of the Bible. It was largely the work of St. Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of the old Latin translations...

 —just as "Protestant Bible" refers to translations descended from the Tyndale Bible

Tyndale Bible

The Tyndale Bible generally refers to the body of biblical translations by William Tyndale. Tyndale’s Bible is credited with being the first English translation to work directly from Hebrew and Greek texts. Furthermore it was the first English biblical translation that was mass produced as a result...

 and generally do not contain these books, considering them apocryphal

Apocrypha

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including "hidden", "esoteric", "spurious", "of questionable authenticity", ancient Chinese "revealed texts and objects" and "Christian texts that are not canonical"....

 or non-canonical.

Additionally, Catholic Bibles are published only after receiving an imprimatur

Imprimatur

An imprimatur is, in the proper sense, a declaration authorizing publication of a book. The term is also applied loosely to any mark of approval or endorsement.-Catholic Church:...

, or approval for publication, from a Catholic bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

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Modern English Catholic Bibles

Abbreviation	Name	Date
DRB	Douay-Rheims Bible	1582–1610
DRC	Douay-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision	1752
WVSS	Westminster Version of the Sacred Scriptures	1913–19351
SPC	Spencer New Testament	1941
CCD	Confraternity Bible Confraternity Bible Confraternity Bible is a somewhat broad term that refers to any edition of the Catholic Bible translated under the auspices of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine between 1941 and 1969. The Confraternity Bible is known, and appreciated, for the balance it strikes between accessibility and...	19412
Knox	Knox's Translation of the Vulgate Knox's Translation of the Vulgate The Holy Bible: A Translation From the Latin Vulgate in the Light of the Hebrew and Greek Originals is a Catholic version of the Bible in three volumes translated by Monsignor Ronald Knox, the English theologian, priest, and crime writer. It is more commonly known as the Knox Version...	1955
KLNT	Kleist-Lilly New Testament	19563
JB	Jerusalem Bible Jerusalem Bible The Jerusalem Bible is a Roman Catholic translation of the Bible which first was introduced to the English-speaking public in 1966 and published by Darton, Longman & Todd...	1966
RSV-CE	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition The Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition is an adaptation of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible for use by Catholics...	1965–664
NAB	New American Bible New American Bible The New American Bible is a Catholic Bible translation first published in 1970. It had its beginnings in the Confraternity Bible, which began to be translated from the original languages in 1948....	1970
TLB-CE	The Living Bible - Catholic Edition	1971
NJB	New Jerusalem Bible New Jerusalem Bible The New Jerusalem Bible is a Roman Catholic translation of the Bible published in 1985 by Darton, Longman & Todd and Les Editions du Cerf, and edited by the Reverend Henry Wansbrough.- Contents :...	1985
CCB	Christian Community Bible Christian Community Bible The Christian Community Bible refers to a family of translations of the Christian Bible intended to be more accessible to ordinary readers, particularly those in Third World countries...	1986
NRSV-CE	New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition The New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition is a translation of the Bible adapted for the use of Catholics with the approval of the Catholic Church. It contains all the canonical books of Scripture accepted by the Catholic Church arranged in the traditional Catholic order...	1989
CPDV	Catholic Public Domain Version	2009
WGCIB	The Work of God's Children Illustrated Bible The Work of God's Children Illustrated Bible The Work of God's Children Illustrated Bible is a public domain Bible translation which is being developed through a wiki interface by The Work of God's Children, a nonprofit corporation with 5013 tax-exempt status from the IRS...	2010

¹Released in parts between 1913–1935 with copious study and textual notes. The New Testament with condensed notes was released in 1936 as one volume.

²NT released in 1941. The OT contained material from the Challoner Revision until the entire OT was completed in 1969.

³New Testament only; Gospels by James Kleist, rest by Joseph Lilly.

⁴Second Catholic Edition released 2006.