Biblical Resources: Magesterial Teachings

Primary Sources

  • Murphy, Dennis (ed.), The Church And The Bible: Official Documents of the Catholic ChurchAlba House, 2007.
  • Louis, C. (ed.), Rome & the Study of Scripture: A Collection of Papal Enactments on the Study of Holy Scripture Together with the Decisions of the Biblical Commission (7th ed.). St. Meinrad, IN: Abbey Press, 1964.
  • Pontifical Biblical Commission, The Historicity of the Gospels. Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1964.
  • Pontifical Biblical Commission, The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church.  Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1993.
  • Pope Leo XIII. Providentissimus Deus (Encyclical on the Study of Sacred Scripture, 1893). Boston: Daughters of St. Paul.
  • Pope Benedict XV. Spiritus Paraclitus (Encyclical on the Fifteenth Centenary of the Death of St. Jerome, 1920). Boston: Daughters of St. Paul.
  • Pope Pius XII. Divino Afflante Spiritu (Encyclical on the Promotion of Biblical Studies, 1943). Boston: Daughters of St. Paul.
  • Vatican II. Dei Verbum (The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, 1965). Boston: Daughters of St. Paul.


Secondary Sources