Catholic and Enjoying It!
is Verbum 6.0. I got me a copy the other day and it is so amazingly, ridiculously, rich in features that I could fill the blog discussing it. It’s user friendly and intuitive and it just expanded my library by a thousand+ books. It gives you a wide variety of Bibles with all sort of powerful search engine and cross-referencing power, as well as multiple catechisms down the ages with the link between the Church’s teaching the biblical and patristic sources of that teaching. You can open a Bible passage and instantly find out what any or all of the Church fathers, councils and theologians have had to say about it. Or you can instantly see how the passage influences or is referenced by other biblical authors. Oh, it also gives you all the fathers of the Church as well as the great medieval and contemporary theologians from Aquinas to Benedict. You can read the biblical text in the original languages, peruse the Vulgate, and even see some of Chesterton’s and Scott Hahn’s work. There are histories of the Church, beaucoup encyclicals, commentaries, Scripture study helps galore, the lectionary, plus a rotating cycle of just plain cool stuff like lives of the saints, historical and cultural backgr9und on the Bible, artwork, preaching and sermon helps, and prodigious amounts more that I, frankly, have not yet been able to explore because Verbum is so awesomely rich. Anybody, priest, scholar or just lay poker-arounder in Scripture and theology, really owes it to themselves to get this incredibly powerful tool. And, as a Washingtonian, let me say I am really proud that this is an export of my state. I gotta get up the road to Bellingham and meet these guys so I can shake their hands!
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