[Bl. Pope] Pius IX, condemned the following notion: “The prophecies and miracles
set forth and recorded in the Sacred Scriptures are the fiction of
poets, and the mysteries of the Christian faith the result of
philosophical investigations. In the books of the Old and the New
Testament there are contained mythical inventions...”37
Pope Leo XIII: “It is absolutely wrong and forbidden either to narrow
inspiration to certain parts only of Sacred Scripture or to admit that
the sacred writer has erred.”38
Pope Pius X, condemned the notion: “Divine inspiration does not extend
to all of Sacred Scriptures so that it renders its parts, each and
every one, free from every error.”39
Pope Benedict XV: “...the divine inspiration extends to all parts of
Scripture without distinction, and that no error could occur in the
inspired text.”40
Pope Pius XII, repeats Leo XIII decree: “It is absolutely wrong and
forbidden either to narrow inspiration to certain parts only of Sacred
Scripture or to admit that the sacred writer has erred.”41
Pope Pius XII, condemns the notion: “...immunity from error extends
only to those parts of the Bible that treat of God or of moral and
religious matters.”42
1964 Pontifical Biblical Commission: “...that the Gospels were written
under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who preserved their authors
from every error.”
1998 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: “...the absence of
error in the inspired sacred texts...”43
Pope Leo XIII: “For the sacred Scripture is not like other books.
Dictated by the Holy Spirit, it contains things of the deepest
importance, which, in many instances, are most difficult
andobscure....For all the books in their entirety...with all their
parts, have been written under the dictation of the Holy
Spirit.”44
Council of Trent: “...the purity itself of the Gospel is preserved in
the Church, which promised before through the Prophets in the Holy
Scriptures...and [the Synod] clearly perceiving that this truth and
instruction are contained in the written books and in the unwritten
traditions, which have been received by the apostles from the mouth of
Christ Himself, or from the apostles themselves, at the dictation of
the Holy Spirit, have come down even to us, transmitted as it were
from hand to hand, [the Synod] following the examples of the orthodox
Fathers, receives and holds in veneration with an equal affection of
piety and reverence all the books both of the Old and of the New
Testament, since one God is the author or both, and also the
traditions themselves, those that appertain both to faith and to
morals, as having been dictated either by Christ's own word of mouth,
or by the Holy Spirit, and preserved in the Catholic Church by a
continuous succession”.”45
Vatican Council 1: “If anyone shall not accept the entire books of
Sacred Scripture with all their divisions, just as the sacred Synod of
Trent has enumerated them, as canonical and sacred, or denies that
they have been inspired by God: let him be anathema.” [source]
1994 Catechism of the Catholic Church: “Sacred Scripture is the speech
of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy
Spirit.” .... “God inspired the human authors of the sacred books...it
was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted
written, and no more.”46
Pope Leo XIII: “It is futile to argue that the Holy Spirit took human
beings as his instruments in writing, implying that some error could
slip in...For by his supernatural power he so stimulated and moved
them to write, and so assisted them while they were writing, that they
properly conceived in their mind, wished to write down faithfully, and
expressed aptly with infallible truth all those things, and only those
things, which He himself ordered; otherwise He could not Himself be
the author of the whole of Sacred Scripture.”47
Code of Canon Law (1983): “Even after ordination to the priesthood,
clerics are to pursue sacred studies and are to strive after that
solid doctrine founded in sacred scripture, handed on by their
predecessors, and commonly accepted by the Church, as set out
especially in the documents of councils and of the Roman Pontiffs.
They are to avoid profane novelties and pseudo-science.48
