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For instance, [[Raymond E. Brown]], "perhaps the foremost English-speaking Catholic Biblical scholar" <ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-the-rev-raymond-e-brown-1172611.html</ref>, wrote:<ref>{{cite book|author=Raymond Brown|title=The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus|publisher=Paulist Press|year=1973|page=8-9}}</ref>
<blockquote>In the last hundred years we have moved from an understanding wherein inspiration guaranteed that the Bible was totally inerrant to an understanding wherein inerrancy is limited to the Bible's teaching of "that truth which God wanted put into the sacred writings for the sake of our salvation." In this long journey of thought the concept of inerrancy was not rejected but was seriously modified to fit the evidence of biblical criticism which showed that the Bible was not inerrant in questions of science, of history, and even of time-conditioned religious beliefs.</blockquote>
Similarly, Scripture scholar R. A. F. MacKenzie<ref>https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/roderick-andrew-francis-mackenzie</ref> in his commentary on ''Dei Verbum'':<ref>{{cite book|editor=Abbott|title=The Documents of Vatican II|year=1967|page=119 note 31}}</ref>
<blockquote>The Bible was not written in order to teach the natural sciences, nor to give information on merely political history. It treats of these (and all other subjects) only insofar as they are involved in matters concerning salvation. It is only in this respect that the veracity of God and the inerrancy of the inspired writers are engaged.</blockquote>
These views are shared by many Church officials and as a result are taken for granted in some Church documents. For instance:
▲- An official report (1999) on theological conversations between the [[US Conference of Catholic Bishops]] and the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], to be found on the website of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops: <ref>https://www.usccb.org/resources/Report-on-Sacred-Scripture.pdf</ref>
<blockquote>For Roman Catholics, inerrancy is understood as a consequence of biblical inspiration; it has to do more with the truth of the Bible as a whole than with any theory of verbal inerrancy. Vatican II says that "the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching firmly, faithfully, and without error that truth which God wanted put into the sacred writings for the sake of our salvation" (Dei Verbum 11). What is important is the qualification of "that truth" with "for the sake of our salvation."</blockquote>
<blockquote>14. [...] The books thus declared canonical and inspired by the Spirit of God contain ‘the truth which God wished to be set down in the sacred writings for the sake of our salvation’ (Dei Verbum 11). It is important to note this teaching of the Second Vatican Council that the truth of Scripture is to be found in all that is written down ‘for the sake of our salvation’. We should not expect total accuracy from the Bible in other, secular matters. We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision.</blockquote>
<blockquote>15. [...] even though all parts of Sacred Scripture are inspired, inerrancy applies only to ‘that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation’ (DV 11).</blockquote>
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