Expert: Fr. Michael - 10/3/2010

Question
Where in the Bible is the New Covenant most clearly enunciated? What online Bible do you recommend?

Answer
Of course, the focus of any traditional Catholic must be on the most authoritative part of the Bible, which is the four Gospels, containing the words and acts of Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, describing the New Covenant.  For an understanding of these texts, one would want to consult the commentaries of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, who represent the Apostolic Tradition (St. Augustine, St. Ambrose, St. Thomas Aquinas, etc.).

For traditional Catholics, the Bible of choice is the Douay-Rheims, which comes from roughly the same period as the King James Version.  It is available in many sources and formats.  It is a relatively literal translation of sacred texts, without the translations injecting their personal opinions into the translation.  A more recent version, which is fairly good, is known as the Confraternity Version, published in the 1950s.

More modern versions tend to be quite inaccurate, not representing the sacred texts literally, but being "adjusted" to the personal Modernist notions of the translators and sold as "translations."  One of the worst of these is the New American Bible, produced in the late 1960s, which is a full-blown product of the Novus Ordo sect and contains numerous manipulations of the meaning of the sacred texts.