The authority of the Pontifical Bible Commission

[Kook]

St. Pius X invested the PBC with magisterial authority along the lines of the Holy Office. Apparently, this was done away with at some point. Does anybody know when that might have been and what sort of authority the Commission currently has?

 

[Sanctus_Militis]

Hello here is a link that I think will answer you questions about Pontifical Biblical Commission,
americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=1466

Yours in Christ

 

[Verbum]

Hi Kook,

Since Paul VI, the P.B,.C. is no longer a scriptural watchdog but a sort of meeting place for Catholic exegetes and representatives of the magisterium. Indeed some of the decisions it made at the beginning of the 20th C are now obsolete. Cardinal Ratzinger gave a speech on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the P.B.C. , which you can find at :

vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/pcb_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030510_ratzinger-comm-bible_en.html

It includes the following passage :

With the motu proprio *Sedula Cura, *Paul VI completely restructured the Biblical Commission so that it was no longer an organ of the Magisterium, but a meeting place between the Magisterium and exegetes, a place of dialogue in which representatives of the Magisterium and qualified exegetes could meet to find together, so to speak, the intrinsic criteria which prevent freedom from self-destruction, thus elevating it to the level of true freedom

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Verbum