There has long been a gap in the market for a one-volume study Bible for conservative Catholics. There are excellent study Bibles using the official U.S. Catholic translation, the New American Bible, but many conservatives dislike that version because they think its language is clunky and prosaic, and its study notes too beholden to modern Bible criticism. (One example that sticks in my own craw is the note on Matthew 16:21-23: “Neither this nor the two later passion predictions . . . can be taken as sayings that, as they stand, go back to Jesus himself.” I’m not a Bible literalist, and even I find this dismissal high-handed.) And the Navarre Bible is plenty conservative, but stretches to 19 volumes.

The new Didache Bible from Midwest Theological Forum and Ignatius Press fits the bill: Its translation is the most recent Catholic Edition of the highly accurate Revised Standard Version (which was itself, as the title page of this edition reminds us, a revision of the beloved 1611 Protestant KJV). And its notes refer frequently to the papal magisterium (most often, the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church).

Recommended for conservative Catholics, and anyone else who seeks to understand how the Catholic tradition reads the Bible.