That doesn't make any sense...The official Catholic bible is the NAB...If it was any good, your religion would have stuck with it...
“The official Catholic bible is the NAB”
Last I checked the Catholic church exists outside of America.
Wrong. The USCCB (actually, the CCD) has the copyright on the NAB. It is approved for use in the U.S. only. The Lectionary is taken from the NAB.
But the USCCB has approved 10-12 different translations, plus there is a blanket approval for every translation that was approved by a local ordinary or the Apostolic See before 1983, or since 1983 by the bishops' conference.
So that includes the Douay, as well as the RSV (Catholic edition). Also the Knox Bible, which is my current favorite.
The NAB is a typical product of the seventies . . . it is neither euphonious nor a particularly accurate translation. They have tried revising it several times, but it's still pretty clunky -- it's what is sometimes called a "dynamic translation" but it is not one in the strictest sense of the word. The Knox Bible is a true "dynamic translation"; if you want to see the difference, compare the two.