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=== Vatican II ===
The [[Second Vatican Council]] (1962–65), a gathering of the world's [[bishops]] called together to "update" Catholic teaching and practice, issued doctrinal documents on a number of topics, including one on [[Revelation]]. The first draft, prepared by a predominantly conservative commission, was traditional, including its position on inerrancy:<ref>{{
{{quote|11. Since God himself by the inspiring Spirit is the Author of all Holy Scripture and, as it were, the writer of everything produced in it by the hagiograph's hand it follows that all and each of the parts of the sacred books, even the slightest parts, are inspired. Therefore everything stated by the hagiograph must be considered to have been stated by the Holy Spirit.}}
{{quote|12. Because divine Inspiration extends to everything, the absolute immunity of all Holy Scripture from error follows directly and necessarily. For we are taught by the ancient and constant faith of the Church that it is utterly forbidden to grant that the sacred writer himself has erred, since divine Inspiration of itself as necessarily excludes and repels any error in any matter, religious or profane, as it is necessary to say that God, the supreme Truth, is never the Author of any error whatever.}}
After a week's debate, 62% of the assembled bishops voted to reject the draft on Revelation.<ref>{{cite book|author=John W. O'Malley|title=What Happened at Vatican II|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|year=2008|page=150}}</ref> Five other drafts would follow in the course of the next 3 years, the fruit of negotiations among various groups at the Council resulting in language broad enough to attract votes from a wide spectrum of bishops. The last draft was approved by a vote of 2081 to 27, and on 18 November 1965 became the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, known as {{lang|la|[[Dei verbum]]}} from its first Latin words.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html|title=Dei verbum}}</ref> The document's teaching on inerrancy is found in a single sentence:
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{{quote|11.{{nbsp}}[...] Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures.}}
The crux of the matter was the phrase "for the sake of our salvation". It was acceptable to the progressives, who understood it as limiting inerrancy to matters of salvation, as well as to most of the conservatives, who
Since Vatican II, there has been no official pronouncement on the meaning of this phrase. Article 107 of the [[Catechism of the Catholic Church]] (1992) simply quotes the sentence from {{lang|la|Dei verbum}} without any further explanation:<ref name="vatican.va">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PP.HTM|title = Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText}}</ref>
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