Hey Jude.

The other night I was attending an interfaith Bible Study.  We were reading the Book of Jude or The Letter of Jude.  We began by watching a video.  In the video the narrator was speaking of Jude, not being an apostle.  And James is mentioned as the brother of Jesus.

Well, I didn't say anything because it was a Catholic priest who was leading this particular session.  He said nothing about this Letter of Jude, not being an apostle, nor that James is not a biological brother of Jesus.  So I stayed quiet.

Later I took out my Bible and the introduction to the Letter of Jude was exactly what the narrator said.  Jude is NOT an apostle.  And James is accepted as a brother of Jesus.  It doesn't go into the "how."  This Bible is a New American Bible, St. Joseph Edition, 2011.

I took out my old high school Bible, Catholic Family Library Edition Holy Bible, 1958.  The book in question is titled, The Catholic Epistle of St. Jude the Apostle.  James is assumed to be a member of Jesus's extended family. 

When did the Bible change?  I don't know the date, but the USCCB says:

This letter is by its address attributed to “Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James” (Jude 1). Since he is not identified as an apostle, this designation can hardly be meant to refer to the Jude or Judas who is listed as one of the Twelve (Lk 6:16; Acts 1:13; cf. Jn 14:22). The person intended is almost certainly the other Jude, named in the gospels among the relatives of Jesus (Mt 13:55; Mk 6:3), and the James who is listed there as his brother is the one to whom the Letter of James is attributed (see the Introduction to James). Nothing else is known of this Jude, and the apparent need to identify him by reference to his better-known brother indicates that he was a rather obscure personage in the early church.

Google has references to Jude being an apostle, so I am not the only one, who didn't know the change.  The Bible is full of surprises.