[Aquinasfan]

We are long past the days of believing that the world was created in six 24-hour days.

Right. Then there are allegories, etc.

The point is that the Church teaches that Scripture is the inspired Word of God. The reporting is very misleading.

As for the "Bible alone" crowd, I'd like to know where in the Bible Jesus is recorded as commanding his Apostles to write a New Testament. I do seem to recall something about the church being "the pillar and foundation of truth," though. Christ's Church wrote, preserved and canonized the Bible. No Church, no Bible.

[ex-snook]

"As for the "Bible alone" crowd, I'd like to know where in the Bible Jesus is recorded as commanding his Apostles to write a New Testament."

Very good point. God the Father wrote in stone. Jesus wrote in sand. Jesus believed in teaching through others, not writings.

He selected apostles with Peter as the head to bind and to loose. The Catholic Church is the successor to the apostles with the Pope as Peter.

The Bible contains all that is necessary for salvation. Nothing more, nothing less.