Our Mission

Bible Explorer is a free, self-hosted Catholic Bible reader built on the 73-book canon and Latin Vulgate tradition. Every verse connects directly to scriptural cross-references and all 2,865 paragraphs of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. All texts and commentaries are strictly human-authored, with zero user accounts, advertisements, or tracking.

Biblical Texts

• Catholic Public Domain Version: 73-book Catholic edition translated from the Latin Vulgate by Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009.
• Biblia Sacra Vulgata: Clementine Vulgate in Latin, 1598.
• Douay-Rheims Bible: Challoner revision, 1752, translated from the Latin Vulgate.
• World English Bible: Catholic edition in modern English, 2000.
• Menge Bible: German translation by Hermann Menge, 1939.
• Berean Standard Bible: Section and pericope headings.

Catechism and Historical Commentary

• Catechism of the Catholic Church: Cross-reference mappings via the official Vatican IntraText scriptural index.
• Historical Summaries: Bishop Challoner chapter summaries via DRBO.org and The Douay-Rheims Archive.
• Bible Summary: Chapter overviews by Chris Juby.

Art and Historical Figures

• Chapter Artworks: Public domain paintings and engravings by Gustave Doré, James Tissot, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Albrecht Dürer, Carl Bloch, and open museum archives.
• Theographic Bible Dataset: Open biblical geography, metadata, and timeline structures.
• Wikimedia Commons: Historical entity portraiture and author imagery.

Audio Narration and Speech Models

Scriptural and theological texts are 100% human-authored. Audio narration is synthetically generated on self-hosted infrastructure using the open-weights Kokoro ONNX model for English and Piper TTS for German, with exact verse timestamp alignment.

Questions, corrections, or suggestions? Reach out directly via hello@nboe.me.