To which can be added RC adherence to the discredited JEDP theory, and relegating numerous historical accounts in the RC NAB approved notes to being fables or folk tales, among other denials. (http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Ancients_on_Scripture.html#Remarks)
Not really what the conservative element wants to see, while the more literally a Catholics holds the Bible to be then the more conservative they are. American Piety in the 21st Century, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion http://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/33304.pdf
I'm not so sure that's true. I'll take the Pope's words over Fr. Dwight Longnecker's, over what a Catholic is supposed to believe regarding the Bible. The more a Catholic believes the Bible to be literally true, the more out of step they are with their Pope, with their Cardinals, and with their Bishops.