If you use a Mac running OS X, you might be interested in some very nifty Bible widgets that use OS X 10.4’s Dashboard feature. Logos Bible Widget is the simplest of the lot. You just enter in a verse and it brings it up. No frills. Unfortunately, you can only do verse searches, not keywords, and it only gives you the King James Bible. Not Catholic friendly.
An alternative would be the Biblegateway.com widget (download from Eject Media; Click on “widget”). While the Bible Gateway widget allows you to search more than 28 different translations, including Bibles in French and Spanish, using either specific verses or keywords, it still doesn’t have a specifically Catholic friendly translation available, such as RSV or NAB.
The primary reason for the lack is that both the Revised Standard Version and the New American Bible are copyrighted, and the NAB is owned by the USCCBureaucracy, which is notoriously possessive of its intellectual property rights. I wish someone would come up with a way to search either one of those online, but I’m not holding my breath.
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Maybe they think that copyrighting the Bible will protect it from unauthorized alterations. (How’s that working out, guys?)
The RSV and Douay-Rheims can be found at http://www.studylight.org/
We’re kind of getting away from the point which was to have a little widget for easy lookup of Bible verses. If I’m going to have to search through text files or HTML pages, I could just use the Bible on my desk. Now if I were a programmer, I could whip those text files into something…