I came for this question. I hadn't read the Challoner. I'd heard it of course, but my DRB was a Haydock which I now understand to be a mishmash of Challoner and (?) Knox or something? Due to visual impairment, it was software plus an online version. And I was making a module for the software with Haydock's notes while reading through in a year, so everyone could have access to $$$ Haydock's notes. But I wasn't enjoying it. No I'll be honest: I detest Haydock's notes. At first, they look impressive (some Challoner footnotes but hard to distinguish from others, a few "big names" like St. Augustine, etc), but he was always with the naming off of demonic mythological figures.. let me shoot you an example:
> Isaias 1 Verse 29
> Idols. Protestants, "oaks, which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens," &c. (Haydock) --- the groves were sacred to Venus, and the gardens to Adonis, and were scenes of the greatest immorality and profanation, chap. lxv. 3.
Let's just say his notes had me cringing when it was time to read the Bible and do the Haydock module. It was Hell but I didn't know what was "wrong"; I figured I just didn't have the right kind of faith, and put MORE effort into it.
But then I got a look at a real old Haydock, and there really are masonic symbols in the imagery and on the cover (like you wouldn't believe), so that turned me off. I'm considering abandoning the module because I don't want to contribute to soul-stealing masonry. Sorry not sorry.
So part-way through March, I pulled down an old OLD Challoner that was in great condition, and it's LOVELY! Dear God has it been a blessing! I finally got a great reading lamp (I wear dark glasses with bifocals), but I got the lamp
because of the Bible!, so I was physically able to "read a book" again without relying on sunlight at the window. It was that important to me, that in a time of probable economic collapse, I sought out a special lamp for visually impaired people, just so I could read the Challoner!
I keep my laptop open with the software including the original KJV, some oddball DRB (freebie module, better than NAB), the (English) LXX and the Vulgate. But those barely interest me anymore because of the "Faithful" footnotes! Those words he opted to use are beautiful!
Clearly, Bp. Challoner is someone who LOVED Holy Writ, and his Faith, and while I had started out not trusting it because of poor reviews, and checked it against the software Bibles as if I were some expert, that attitude soon disappeared. I love it! I trust it.
It's a big, heavy Bible that you wouldn't want to carry around, but for pleasurable reading?! Dear GOD what a blessing!
(And no freaky pyramid/eyeball imagery. It's very holy. I am humbled to have read as much as I have, and feel most blessed.)
Read the Challoner. Don't trust anything with a square and compass. Honestly, Bp. Challoner was the 2nd millennium's St. Jerome when it comes to love of Church.