Catholic.net launched its Catholic Bible search engine yesterday. It’s the first complete Catholic Bible available online for keyword search. The translations, in both English and Spanish, have been approved by the Vatican.
The Bible search is social-media friendly. It lets users share Bible passages on popular social media websites. Chapters of the Bible can also be downloaded, and a Bible search widget can be added to users’ own websites or blogs (information is available here).
“This tool aims to help the faithful in their biblical studies and to facilitate Scripture sharing,” said Rosalia Tenorio, Catholic.net’s director.
The project was funded in part by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Bible reading, anyone?
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It’s a great idea, but the website needs some work. John 1:1 Says ” In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught” which is Luke 1:1. All several of the links at the bottom of the page, like “contact” and “advertising” take you back to the search page, not to the contact or advertising page.
Like Brian said, it’s a great idea, but the search engine needs improvement. I knew where the verse I wanted was, since I had used a concordance, but as precise as I was - NT, MTT, 7 it refused to respond with the quote which was “Ask and it shall be given…” Tell them to try again.
What good news. I blog everyday and I often need to get Bible quotes; this will cut down on my typing time greatly.
I have not tried it yet; but the fact that I have the option for Spanish and English is wonderful. The Spanish will encourage me to communicate with my Latino brothers more, because trying to translate or copy from my Spanish translation Bible was always tedious,and there was never an Spanish Apocryphal section in my Latino Bible.
Ooops! I went and tried it. I could not pull up a single verse from the O.T. or N.T. after 5-6 tries. This program needs some serious overhauling. Maybe it is just me, but I would like hear from others?
Charlie
Needs some serious proofreading. Tried it several times, each time had a number of errors. Good idea but hipe the 2.0 version is cleaner.
I could get to the chapters and verses from the second page not the front page.
It’s not really Bible STUDY, which the title of the article would suggest, it’s just the Bible. Bible STUDY would include commentary or historical or geographical information to supplement the text. I really don’t see the point. It’s just a front end for the NAB at the USCCB website.
I tried a few searches but the results weren’t what I was searching for or nothing came back from the search. I agree with Ben that this is misrepresented as a Bible “study” tool. The USCCB, which partially funded this project, already has the NAB on their site, so I think their money could have better spent. At least someone from the USCCB should have tried this out before approving the funding.
I am in total agreement with Ben that the article is mis-leading. This is not to my way of thinking a Bible STUDY site…I am a member of a long-standing Bible study group in my parish! When I saw this article I was excited and ready to share this site with the group. After visiting this site and being highly disappointed I have decided nothing here to share.We all have Bibles…needed a website that would aid in the study
of the Bible..and what is here as others have stated needs to be re-worked. I could not use successfully to bring up anything I needed to
find. Please, please consider making this a true Bible study site. There are plenty of places on line to find a Catholic Bible.
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