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Hi HC,

I am not really competing with Verbum because I can't. I am one person, where they are hundreds with a multi-million dollar budget. I was just trying to fill a gap for something free and accessible when i created it. And I wanted to create something that is traditional and Catholic. One thing you will like is that I have a traditional calendar up to the year 2050 with the readings etc. It also comes with nice RSS feeds for video content. It uses the Douay Rheims English Bible, Clementine Latin Vulgate, Greek Textus Receptus, Greek Septuagint. If you install on French or Spanish or Chinese systems you will get traditional versions of those bibles.

Some of the freatures include:

Full text searching of every bible by word and by phrase.
Rev. Fr. Haydock full bible commentary embedded.
Interactive maps and satellite overlays.
Vertical and horizontal text comparison.
Peristent book marking of important verses.
Peristent cross referencing of important verses.
Flexible commenting tools and repository for adding exegesis.
Project workspace for managing research.
A rich library full of Catholic content, including video and chant.
The user interface now supports 9 different languages.
There is also a lot more...
Hope you all enjoy.

Just when I was beginning to think that there were few if any intelligent life forms among the members of Gloria. TV, you posted this. Brilliant work, Irenaeus.

Could you give a brief description of your program's attributes.

Aside from Verbum's cost (ranging from $270 to $2,290), how would you compare your free program (strengths vs weaknesses) with Verbum as given in its description.

I posted this a while back. And it is still free.

Catholic Software - Free

HC --you read your Bible like a Protestant

You know nothing about me, little man.

Yet, you wrote all that insulting nonsense and accuse me of reading scripture like a Protestant would read scripture, simply because I think a software program -- a program that includes writings of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, Greek and Latin references, the saints and the catechism-- is a worth while program?

You're an illogical dolt.

The end justifies the means for you.

A strawman and irrelevant.

In spite of this software including all of the sound Catholic material that has already been indicated, the software is obviously not meant for those weak in their faith or of weak intelligence who are unable to separate the good from the bad.

Besides, for those who don't read the bible anyway (hint-hint), it's a moot point.

how one should interface with their (Protestant) teachings

One does not "interface with their teachings" if those teachings are avoided which is exactly what you were advised to do and is precisely what I do with contentious individuals.

Toodles...

I guess if you can neglect the teachings of the Catholic Church regarding Protestantism and how one should interface with their teachings---it does matter what one says.

The end justifies the means for you.

It is filled with Protestantism

If one lacks the ability to separate the “Protestantism” from the Catholicism then this program would not be for you.

"Raise your study of the Faith to the next level with Verbum Master. It is a massive library of 730 volumes, including all the resources you need to study in-depth both the Scripture and the Tradition. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church to the NA28 Greek New Testament, Master has the crucial texts in a library worth over $13,500."

The program includes the following:

The Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Clementine Vulgate

Douay-Rheims Bible

Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected out of the Works of the Fathers, Volume 1: St. Matthew

Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected out of the Works of the Fathers, Volume 2: St. Mark

Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected out of the Works of the Fathers, Volume 3: St. Luke

Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected out of the Works of the Fathers, Volume 4: St. John

An Exposition of the Epistles of St. Paul and of the Catholic Epistles, vol. 1

An Exposition of the Epistles of St. Paul and of the Catholic Epistles, vol. 2

The Book of Saints

A Catholic Dictionary

Ecclesiastical Dictionary: Containing, in Concise Form, Information upon Ecclesiastical, Biblical, Archæological, and Historical Subjects

Catholic Pocket Dictionary and Cyclopedia

www.logos.com/catholic

Comments:

You can get the basic version for free.
itunes.apple.com/us/app/bible!/id336400266

Catholic or Protestant, Logos is the most powerful Bible study program out there. I’m actually hoping they will expand the system to include normal college texts as well.

However, this type of software is killing our (myself included) ability to do real, serious scholarship. It makes it too easy to find little factoids just as you need them, and most of us (myself included) do not commit the kind of study time required to make ourselves true scholars of the Word.

Remember the good old days when you had to spend hours and hours in the library, pouring over book after book, taking stacks of notes to bring together a cogent argument? With Logos’ powerful search engine, you can search your entire library (mine includes some 500 volumes or so) in seconds. And, in the old days, how often while you were searching for information to support your argument, you were instead forced to read (skim over) counter-arguments? By learning the other side’s opinion, you have to form a solid argument for your position.

Consequently, the seminary I briefly attended discouraged the use of Logos. It’s great software. Perhaps, too great.

And, to give my answer to a question raised in the original article: Had the Church Fathers had access to this software, they might not have become the scholars that we treasure today.
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If you don't want to download stuff, bible.com is a good online resource.
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According to a study released in September by Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, evangelical Protestants are a whopping eight times more likely than Catholics to read the Bible on a weekly basis. Of course, the survey only looked at private Bible reading; it did not take into account the Scripture passages Catholics take in at every Mass.

Still, we tip our hats to our separated brothers and sisters in Christ for their zeal for the Word of God.
-- "Get Cracking, Catholics!", National Catholic Register, Publication dated November 18 2006