Catholic Bible Study Websites

Updated May 31, 2019 (still need to check the older links)

• Newly added Journey Through Scripture: JTS is the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology’s flagship Bible study program. Scott Hahn and others. Highly recommended. See more from the St. Paul Center below.
• Newly added Catholic Productions has a lot of great stuff in CD, DVD, and downloadable MP3 and MP4 formats. PDF outlines and audio samples also available, some video samples, too. CP is Brant Pitre, John Bergsma, and others. Highly recommended.
• New Advent’s Bible Section: New Advent calls it the “Best Online Bible in the World” and it is pretty awesome. Greek, English and Latin, side by side. Plus more info in their Catholic Encyclopedia entries.
• Biblical Evidence for Catholicism: Yes, there is Biblical evidence. Lots!
• Dave Armstrong: Besides the Biblical evidence for Catholicism, Dave’s written a lot of apologetics, ebooks, articles
• Deep in Scripture, Marcus Grodi. “For ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” —St. Jerome, Prologue to the “Commentary on Isaiah”: PL 24,17.
• Gospel According to Saint Paul: Another great Bible study from Scott Hahn, listen online or download audio and PDF handouts for the course.
• New American Bible Online: Read the New American Bible Online at the USCCB.
• Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, Online: I recently found this link but I haven’t used it much yet. Just putting it here since it might be useful to someone.
• Salvation History: Scott Hahn, Salvation History, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.
• Scott Hahn’s site: Scott Hahn, biblical scholar, theologian, Catholic apologist extraordinaire!
• St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology: Study the Scripture from a Catholic perspective”. Highly recommended.
• Steve Ray: Footprints of God DVD series, Holy Land tours, articles, Bible study, books, blog and more from a wonderful teacher and convert. This man is on fire with love for Christ and His Church. :)
• A Biblical Walk Through the Mass website, video introduction and samples of the course.
• Great Adventure: Catholic Bible Study — Discover the Story of Scripture (books, study guides, workbooks, DVD’s, CD’s, charts): Jeff Cavins, Tim Gray, Edward Sri, others. Highly recommended.
• Agape Bible Study: Triple Excellence Gold Award
  for Excellence in Fidelity, Resources & Usability from CatholicCulture.org.

More about Agape Bible Study: “This free Catholic online resource for the study of Sacred Scripture offers:

• In-depth Bible studies in the living tradition of the Catholic Church
• Accessing ancient and contemporary commentaries
• Historical and archaeological information
• Catechism of the Catholic Church references.”

Catholic Bible Study, Books

• Newly added Great Adventure Catholic Bible: Jeff Cavins, Mary Healy. Leather. This sounds like a great resource. I haven’t seen one up close and personal yet, but I hope to soon.
• Newly added A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament, by Brant Pitre and John Bergsma.
• Ignatius Study Bible, Second Catholic Edition, New Testament in one volume. Study tools developed by Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch. Highly recommended.
• A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture, Scott Hahn. Highly recommended.
• Great Adventure: Catholic Bible Study — Discover the Story of Scripture (books, study guides, workbooks, DVD’s, CD’s, charts): Jeff Cavins, Tim Gray, Edward Sri, others. Highly recommended.
• Walking with God: A Journey Through the Bible: Tim Gray and Jeff Cavins. I only have a sample of this on my Kindle, but I’m going to buy the book tomorrow. Looks really good!
• A Biblical Walk Through the Mass: Understanding What We say and do in the Liturgy (course or standalone material): Edward Sri. I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by Sri so far and every talk of his I’ve heard. A Biblical Walk Through the Mass website, video introduction and samples of the course. Dr. Sri on EWTN Live with Fr. Mitch Pacwa talking about the course.

Free Online Bible Courses at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology offers these courses online. They ask that you register and registration is simple, quick and free. Study the Bible with Dr. Scott Hahn. This will revolutionize your understanding of the Holy Scriptures. Get ready for your devotional life to come alive!

• Covenant Love: Introducing the Biblical Worldview
• Genesis to Jesus: A Journey Through Scripture
• The Lamb’s Supper: The Bible and the Mass
• He Must Reign: The Kingdom of God in Scripture
• Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God
• Reading the Old Testament in the New: The Gospel of Matthew
• The Gospel According to Saint Paul, a series of 6 audio talks (MP3’s) with PDF handouts.
• John, the Sacramental Gospel, a series of 6 audio lessons (MP3′s). I’ve been listening to it in the car and it’s really really good! The Bible is the Catholic book par excellence. Don’t let anybody tell you anything different!
• Feasts of Faith: The Old Testament Feasts and Their Fulfillment in Christ.
• Proclaiming the Kingdom: The Gospel of Matthew.

Free (mostly non-Catholic) Bible Study Software

• e-Sword: A very useful Bible study tool, lots of free add-ons and modules, some for purchase. Looks like the printing options might be really handy. Check out the free graphics and extras too. Received this note from Michael Jacques:
  

  Just to let you know about free bible programs.  Esword has modules available for Catholics,  The Catholic commentary on Holy Scripture by Bernard Orchard,  The Catholic commentary  Haydock, and Lapide, Catholic Catechism, Catholic 1919 dictionary and Catholic 1919 encyclopedia, Summa Theologia, Early Church teachings -Church fathers all available for download at http://www.biblesupport.com/ or here at https://sites.google.com/site/apostolicapologetics/resources/e-sword-modules.
  Also all Esword modules can be converted to function in the free bible program “The Word” [see below]. Many of these modules are now also produced for Logos.”

• Bible Explorer: Free downloadable Bible study software for PC or Mac. Full featured, lots of freebies (such as St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate). NAB and RSV (with apocrypha) available for purchase. (Note: That’s not the Ignatius version, not the Catholic Edition; it’s Protestant with the apocrypha added.)
• Biblos.com Online Bible Study Tools: Search, Read, Study the Bible in Many Languages. Not Catholic but they do have the Douay Rheims, which is a Catholic Bible based on the Vulgate, listed up there with all the other non-Catholic versions.
• The Word: Free downloadable Bible study software with many free add-on modules, including the Douay-Rheims-Challoner English version of the Vulgate and the English version of the Septuagint.

Catholic Bible Study Software: Not free but oh so amazing!

I had written here before that I hadn’t found any desirable Bible study software for Mac that was also Catholic. That was before I bit the bullet and bought Verbum from Logos. I started out with a base package, then upgraded, and finally upgraded all the way to the Capstone package. I’ve been using Verbum for a year now and I’m still discovering things about the software itself and my marvelous library, too. Using Verbum has revolutionized the way I study Scripture and the way I study the faith. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. And, yes, I do run Capstone on my 13″ MacBook Air, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 512GB SDD. This is the machine I use most of the time. My workhorse. My baby. ;)

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