The Year of the Bible; Catholic Scholarship

In a previous post I mentioned my disappointment with the National document introducing The God Who Speaks,   In particular I asked what St Jerome had to do with anything.   St Jerome was certainly a Saint and a Scholar who translated the approved Books of the New Testament and the Old into  Latin, but he made no decision as to what books or letters should be used    I had a breakthrough on this when I picked up my Family Bible.  For over thirty years I have had this Bible but I never read the introduction for it is such a beautiful Bible with so much more in it than just the Canon of Scripture.   There are pictures of the Vatican at the beginning, then throughout appears other beautiful coloured pictures of events in the Bible.    It is the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition.   What it revised was the King James version of the Bible.   How did Catholics get involved?    In the UK in 1953 som catholic 'scholars' got together with the Protestants to see if they could publish a Bible acceptable to Protestant and Catholic taste.   Like all ecumenical endeavours the outcome was that Catholics kept their faith to themselves and went along with the Protestants.

Now where did St Jerome fit.   Let me quote our scholars "AS these parts do not incur in the Hebrew Test of Esther. St Jerome  extracted them from their place in the Greek in deference to the view favouring their canonicity"   So St Jerome as you can see gave us the Bible, and if this solitary figure had not included them then the Bible would have been different.   But what about the Councils of the early Church at Hippo and two at Carthage?   "Eventually official decrees confirming the longer anons were issued at the en of the Fourth and the beginning of the Fifth centuries ........But continuing doubts and adverse opinions continued to be expressed in various quartets by prominent Writers".   I am sorry to say that this is the worst example of dishonesty I have ever come across.     The final Council of Carthage solemnly decreed that the chosen Scriptures were the Word of God to be used and read in the Church.  It was ratified by Pope Boniface and was an example of the Authority of the Church given to it by Christ.   The fact that the Catholic Bible Association, the 'great ' scholars, want to have a common Bible is a problem for them and not the Catholic Church whose authority they are rejecting.   I will ignore what they said about the Douai-Rheims, very Catholic translation of the Bible.


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