Official Catholic Interpretations

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I understand that the Catholic Church has only made “official” interpretations on a few verses in the Bible.
Could someone point me to which ones and what the interpretations are?
This is for someone I am talking with in another thread.

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James
 
So far there are only seven:


  1. *] John 3:5 - When Jesus here says that we must be born of water and the Spirit, he implies that real water must be used for a valid baptism.
    *] Luke 22:19 and
    *]1 Corinthians 11:24 - When Jesus said to the apostles, “Do this in memory of me,” he meant to confer priestly ordination.
    *] John 20:23 - The power conferred on the apostles to bind and loose sins authorized them and their successors to forgive sins in God’s name in the sacrament of penance and reconciliation.
    *] John 20:22 - The sacrament of penance was instituted by Jesus who truly conveyed the Holy Spirit to the apostles on Easter Sunday afternoon.
    *] Romans 5:12 - Adam’s sin truly caused all of his descendants to be born into a state of separation from God called Original Sin.
    *] James 5:14 - Christ instituted the sacrament of the anointing of the sick.
 
I’m not sure what the source of that claim is, although I’ve heard it as well. Here’s a Catholic.com Q&A on the matter.

Jimmy Akin claims 7 verses have been partially defined dogmatically. I’m not entirely sure what sources or criteria he used, but it would seem one could easily find more verses consistently cited with certain interpretations throughout the history of the Church. If he was only looking for Papal or conciliar statements that said, “we define, declare, etc…” about a certain verse, then maybe that’s where he came up with 7. But like I said, I think one could fairly argue for more in light of the consistent voice of the ordinary Magisterium on a variety of other verses.

In one perspective, you could say the Church has made numerous “official” (i.e. function of the Church’s “office”) comments on Scriptural verses just from looking at the Catechism’s Scripture index, or any list of scriptural footnotes in an encyclical, conciliar document, etc…
 
Rainaldo said:
So far there are only seven:


  1. *] John 3:5 - When Jesus here says that we must be born of water and the Spirit, he implies that real water must be used for a valid baptism.
    *] Luke 22:19 and
    *]1 Corinthians 11:24 - When Jesus said to the apostles, “Do this in memory of me,” he meant to confer priestly ordination.
    *] John 20:23 - The power conferred on the apostles to bind and loose sins authorized them and their successors to forgive sins in God’s name in the sacrament of penance and reconciliation.
    *] John 20:22 - The sacrament of penance was instituted by Jesus who truly conveyed the Holy Spirit to the apostles on Easter Sunday afternoon.
    *] Romans 5:12 - Adam’s sin truly caused all of his descendants to be born into a state of separation from God called Original Sin.
    *] James 5:14 - Christ instituted the sacrament of the anointing of the sick.
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  1. Thanks.
    Do you have a source for this?

    Peace
    James
 
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