What textual tradition to Roman Catholic translators use?

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

I am almost 100% sure they use the Critical Text. The Douay Rheims (still the choice of many traditionalists) was from the Vulgate, and for a long time they maintained no translation could be made from anything from the Vulgate. DTK would be helpful on this topic.

The Douay-Rheims Bible

The Jerusalem Bible (1966)
The New Jerusalem Bible (1985)
New American Bible

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Chris Poe--Attending Grace Community Baptist Church, Mandeville, LA

"There never was a man in the world without a creed. What is a creed? A creed is what you believe. What is a confession? It is a declaration of what you believe. That declaration may be oral or it may be committed to writing, but the creed is there either expressed or implied."—B.H. Carroll

Their scholars have now defaulted to Protestant scholarship of the CT. But your old traditional Romanists, if consistent, will emphasize (as Trent did) recourse always to the Vulgate, for which there are many variants. Remember, Trent repudiated recourse to the original languages stating its preference for the Vulgate. For an amusing read, research the incompetency of Pope Sixtus V attempting to restore the primitive "authentic" edition of Jerome's Latin Vulgate. His "infallible" attempt to do so proved disastrous.

DTK

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David T. King, pastor
Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Elkton, Maryland
Augustine (354-430): Therefore what He [i.e., Christ] has deigned to speak to us, we ought to believe that He meant us to understand. But if we do not understand He, being asked, gives understanding, who gave His Word unasked. NPNF1: Vol. VII, Tractates on John, Tractate XXII, §1.