Why Should You Read Only the Douay-Rheims Catholic Translation of the Bible? The Douay-Rheims Bible is a scrupulously faithful translation into English of the Latin Vulgate Bible which St. Jerome (342-420) translated into Latin from the original languages. The Vulgate quickly became the Bible universally used in the Latin Rite (by far the largest rite of the Catholic Church). St. Jerome, who was one of the four great Western Fathers of the Church, was a man raised up by God to translate the Holy