The Biblical commission's document "The interpretation of the Bible in the Church". Text and commentary

Under date of April 15, 1993, the Pontifical Biblical Commission published in French a document on the interpretation and use of the Bible in the Church. The English translation, appeared on November 18, 1993, is published in its entirety in the present volume, together with a clarificatory commentary by Fr. Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J., a member of the Biblical Commission. A detailed bibliography is included. Also published are English translations of the address of His Holiness Pope John Paul II on the occasion of the publication of the French original, and of the preface to the document by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, President of the Biblical Commission.