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On the contrary, there is little that is good in the linked discussion. It is a morass of ignorance, misinformation, and misdirection, not the least of which is the mischaracterization of the remarks of Cardinals Newman and Manning. Both men were admirers of Bishop Challoner's work, which succeeded in (1) correcting numerous errors of translation in the original DR, (2) taking advantage of both the Clementine Vulgate and other fully approved Latin, Hebrew, and Greek sources either unknown or unavailable to Gregory Martin and his associates, and (3) using an English vocabulary that reflected the extraordinarily changed nature of the language in the two-century interim.

Do not believe anyone who says that the English of the DR is closer to the meaning of the Vulgate's Latin than the Challoner revision. Such a person knows nothing of Latin, English, or the transitory nature of vernacular languages.

There are at least half a dozen threads here at CI where this matter is discussed with more knowledge and insight than at the linked site's thread. Since Matthew has been good enough to save virtually everything ever published here, it's a pity that the archives are so widely ignored in favor of reinventing the wheel every six months.

A "Catholic Answers" thread? Really? Those jokers over there don't even have a problem with the NAB. The examples they give of parallel translations have to have been cherry-picked to show minimal changes between the true Doway-Rhemes and Bp. Challoner's Douay-Rheims revision. In actual fact, there are some substantial differences. The Doway-Rhemes was translated pretty much directly from Jerome's Vulgate, which was written in Latin in the late 4th century. One thing very notable about Jerome's translation is that he translated the Old Testament directly from the Hebrew back then. Later translators pride themselves on incorporating the original Hebrew, Greek, etc. sources in their version, but there's a big problem that no one talks about -- by the time of the Challoner revision the oldest version of the Old Testament extant in Hebrew was the "Masoretic text," written between the 6th and 10th centuries. It was "corrected" by тαℓмυdic "scholars" in Babylon and Palestine. And that's what is used as primary source material in all modern Bibles.