What people say...

With more than one hundred fifty editions in different languages and more than 40 million copies in print, the Pastoral Bible is nourishing the faith Christians all over the world.

These are some testimonies we received recently:
• "After prayerfully reading this Catholic Pastoral Edition of the Christian Community Bible, those who may have had an inculpable ignorance of Christ would experience an encounter with him to that of the two disciples on the way to Emmaus." Msgr. Donald J. Reece, Bishop of St. John's Basseterre

• "The extraordinary effectiveness of this Bible is found in these notes which deftly and forcefully relate the biblical text to contemporary experience, especially the experience of the poor and the oppressed." Fr. Donald Senior, C.P. Biblical Scholar

• "After using the Christian Community Bible for a different reading of the text for preaching, I found this translation to have a vitality and a passion that one should find in the living Word of God." Rev. Ronald G. Dibvig, Lutheran Pastor, California, USA.

• "It is with thankful tears that I write you for the wonderful Christian Community Bible you produced. You may never know how much fire it is sparking in people's heart due to the great explanations found in the footnotes." Raymond Odinwankpa, Nigeria

• "Not only is the Bible more readable due to the excellent and readable translation, but it also furnishes our communities, lay leaders, priests and religious a very invaluable source through God's words and the readable commentaries of inspiration, prayer and communal discernment." Msgr. Federico O. Escaler, S.J., Emeritus Bishop of Ipil, Philippines

• "Catholics involved with fundamentalist Christians who misread texts through naive literalism will welcome the manner in which scientific accuracy is combined with pastoral concern in the Christian Community Bible." Robert Delaney, USA

This Pastoral Bible is a friendly book inviting and inspiring readers to go back to it daily. The translation is accurate and simple. The commentaries bring the living Tradition of the Church and allow an interiorization of the Word of God leading the readers to share with others what they have understood.