Ironically, practically every priest and bishop in the world considers this "higher criticism" as Catholic dogma, since an "errant" bible is considered confirmation of the need for an authentic oral interpretive tradition (and for sitting religious authorities). In other words, it's considered an answer to Protestant sola scriptura.
I spent six years in the Catholic Church, and practically ever mainstream Catholic publication (OSV, Catholic Digest, Liguorian, US Catholic--you name it)contained an article attacking Biblical inerrency or "literal interpretation" as utterly alien to two millennia of tradition and as a recent Protestant creation to replace said tradition and authorities. Eventually the cognitive dissonance of belonging to such an organization got to me.
The "conservative" Catholic apologeticists in the orbit of OSV were particularly nasty. Then there's the fact that every current official Catholic bible (except for reprints of stuff from a century or more ago) contain higher critical commentary which denies that any of the events did or even could have happened. And these are officially approved by the bishops as "free of doctrinal error!"
The Catholic Church is reaping what it has sown.
For the past 15 weeks I’ve been singing in an Anglican-Catholic choir and really enjoying it.
I’ve sung in Episcopal choirs (and done a bit of opera) before, though it’s been awhile. But here I’ve really begun to get into the drama and symbolism of the Mass to the point where the liturgy has begun to poke at my agnosticism of Jesus’ divinity a bit.
Though I still have more doubts than ever, I see now more than before, in my ehem...senior years, how greatly western civilization has been advanced through the Christian narrative in music, art, literature and even in science.
I still hold affectionately my time spent in synagogue, and yet read my Torah and Haftorahs faithfully on Saturdays. But it’s as if the whole weekend for me now...and indeed the week where I must practice for Sunday, has become tied up in Holiness.
At least that’s how I relate to it.
Shalom.
And oh...I think I see things now more clearly than even The Pope. And I never thought I’d be able to say that!