Sylvie: Catholics in the states tend to use the "new american bible." If you want to pick one up, you can get a paperbound study version for under 10 bucks these days in most places that sell bibles. Catholics don't
reject any bible in particular but I'd steer clear of the KJV (as in King James Version) if you can, unless you want your kid to get it thrown at her. When I went through religious classes I used a Peshitta version, which is Robert T. Lamsa's translation from the aramaic one that Assyrian orthodox and other guys use, the nuns were pretty cool with it, they liked reading a lot of it.
BC: Well it doesn't have to be your monkey. You... guy.
Sweetpea: Well there have been a lot of changes in the church, and one of the biggest ones was the "counter-reformation" where the church had a rare (in the early days) moment of open-mindedness to figure out why so many people were running the other way. Vatican II changed a lot about the way Catholics look at the bible, and one of the biggest additions was the Lumen Gentium. I've pasted it in these forums before but it's more relevant this time so I'll paste it again.
All men are called to be part of this catholic unity of the people of God which in promoting universal peace presages it. And there belong to or are related to it in various ways, the Catholic faithful, all who believe in Christ, and indeed the whole of mankind, for all men are called by the grace of God to salvation.
Basically, the wordy vatican version of "it's all good."
