Douay Rheims Catholic Bible

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About this app

Douay Rheims Catholic Bible (RHE) with Apocrypha

Reading Plan, Daily Verses, Audio, Notifications and many more!

The Douay-Rheims Bible is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English. It was the first officially authorized Catholic Bible translation in English, and has formed the basis of some later Roman Catholic Bibles in English. It includes the seven Deutero-Canonical books (also known as the Apocrypha).

History
In 1568, English exiles who were members of the college at Douai, in Flanders, founded by William (later Cardinal) Allen, began the work of preparing a Bible translation, which has become the foundation of nearly all English Catholic versions. In October, 1578, Gregory Martin began the work of preparing an English translation of the Bible for Catholic readers, the first such translation into Modern English. Assisting were William Allen, Richard Bristow, Thomas Worthington, and William Reynolds who revised, criticized, and corrected Dr. Martin's work. The college published the New Testament at (Reims/Rhemes) , in 1582 through John Fogny with a preface and explanatory notes.

Although the Jerusalem Bible, New American Bible/New American Bible Revised Edition (in the United States), the Revised Standard Version, the New Revised Standard Version and the New Jerusalem Bible are the most commonly used in English-speaking Catholic churches, the Challoner revision of the Douay Rheims is still often the Bible of choice of more traditional English-speaking Catholics.

Ratings and reviews

The text is VERY easy to read!!! The audio voice is TERRIBLE though-but the idea to control speed and pitch is cool. Please put all the OT all together! Some of it you've put after the NT and it doesn't belong there. 🤦‍♀️ The search feature needs fixing. It only works if you're already in a book, but outside one, no. Please just add the search feature at the main screen too. Both places!

This app is beautiful and, despite some minor issues with its flexibility (I would like to see a greater customisability in line spacing, for example) I have no problems with the app itself, and bought it for that reason, believing it to be worth it and more. My major problem with the app comes from its separation of the deuterocanonical books and treatment as if they are "apocryphal". Can you give an option to list the books in the order promulgated by Trent, maybe a tick box in the options?

I had trouble reading the bible, but with this app it I am able to read it a lot more frequently and can easily take notes and highlight passages and then also easily look back at what I specifically noted or highlighted! I don't mind the ads but find it very distracting when it covers 3/4 of what I am reading.

What's new

we fixed crashes, improved performance and added some features