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The Catholic Bible app: Douay-Rheims and Vulgate

The whole Catholic canon — seventy-three books, the deuterocanonical books included — in the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate with the Douay-Rheims beneath, verse by verse, on your phone and without a connection.

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What is inside

The Bible the Church read for centuries

  • The Latin Vulgate. The Clementine edition of 1592, the Latin text the Council of Trent declared authentic.
  • The Douay-Rheims. The classic English Catholic translation, made from the Vulgate, beneath the Latin verse by verse.
  • All seventy-three books. Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch and the Machabees included — the books Protestant Bibles leave out.
  • Book by book, verse by verse. Take up your reading where you left it, and highlight the verses you keep.
  • Offline. The whole Bible stays on your phone.
The Catholic Bible app: the books of the Vulgate, each with its number of chapters
Genesis 1 in the Catholic Bible app: the Latin Vulgate verse by verse, the Douay-Rheims beneath, verses highlighted

Why the Douay-Rheims

A Catholic canon, a Catholic translation

A Catholic Bible is first a matter of canon: seventy-three books, not sixty-six. It is then a matter of translation. The Douay-Rheims was made by English Catholics in exile, from the Latin Vulgate the Church had read for a thousand years; it is the wording English-speaking Catholics heard and prayed for generations.

Reading it beneath the Latin is reading Scripture as the liturgy gives it: the psalms of the Office are those of the Vulgate, and the Epistle and the Gospel of the Mass are read in its Latin.

Its history — the exiles of Rheims and Douai, and why Catholics still read it — is told in the Douay-Rheims Bible; and the whole text can be read now on this site, chapter by chapter beside the Vulgate.

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Questions

The Catholic Bible app, in a few questions

What is the best Catholic Bible app?

One that holds the whole Catholic canon — seventy-three books — in a Catholic translation. Iter Fidei gives the Douay-Rheims beside the Latin Vulgate, offline and without advertising. The deuterocanonical books

Is the Douay-Rheims a Catholic Bible?

Yes. It is the classic English Catholic translation, made from the Vulgate by English Catholics at Rheims and Douai: the New Testament appeared in 1582, the Old in 1609–1610.

Is there a free Catholic Bible app?

Joining early access is free; at launch the app will be offered by subscription, without advertising. The Epistle and the Gospel of each day are free to read on this site, in Latin and English. Today's Latin Mass readings

Can I read the Bible offline?

Yes. The whole Bible is kept on your phone; no connection is needed.

Does the app have the Latin Vulgate?

Yes: the Clementine Vulgate of 1592, verse by verse, with the Douay-Rheims beneath each verse.