Which Catholic Bible commentaries and catechisms would you recommend for an orthodox reader?

There are some orthodox ones: Dom Bernard Orchard put out a good commentary in the 1950s, and the old Haydock commentary is good. I would actually get all the commentaries, including a couple of Protestant ones, because they sometimes work out things Catholics miss; most Catholic scholars do not know Greek or Hebrew, only Latin, and the ones who do know Greek tend to be liberal, like Raymond Brown and his colleagues who produced the Jerome Biblical Commentary, whose later editions are worse than the first. The deeper problem is that from the 1950s onward most Catholic commentaries hold that only the passages about salvation, perhaps ten percent, are inspired. The test I apply is how they handle 2 Timothy 3:16. The traditional and correct translation is 'all Scripture is inspired by God and profitable,' but the liberals render it 'every scripture inspired by God is profitable,' implying only some Scripture is inspired. That is a distortion, because Greek can drop the copulative verb for emphasis, as in Ephesians 2:8, like a newspaper headline; and Paul's own addition of 'and profitable' proves the copulative is implied, since otherwise they would also have to say only some Scripture is profitable. To treat the word of God this way, deciding for us which parts are inspired, is itself part of the apostasy.