Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible! Can it be!? The “first woman” wasn’t created from a male rib? Stop the presses! 
The Bible is true in passages relating to human salvation, they say, but continue: “We should not expect total accuracy from the Bible in other, secular matters.”
They go on to condemn fundamentalism for its “intransigent intolerance” and to warn of “significant dangers” involved in a fundamentalist approach.
“Such an approach is dangerous, for example, when people of one nation or group see in the Bible a mandate for their own superiority, and even consider themselves permitted by the Bible to use violence against others.”
Now, it only remains for the American Fundamentalists… sorry, “Religious Right”, to do the same. I don’t know, 500-1000 more years should do the trick. 
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They had abandon Literalism for quite a while now.
Glad to see this. Especially the part about one group of people seeing the bible as a mandate. Sounds familiar. Of course the people we’re fighting are fundamentalist too but that doesn’t mean we have to lie to the American people to get into a marginally effective engagement. Our resources caould be used in a much better way. I guess this is the tail wagging the dog here. Bush wants war he gets war and don’t argue with him because G-d told him to go to war. See my blog for all my comments about Intelligent Design and Bush’s so called mandate. I am not against religion I am against having it dictate parts of our lives it has no authority on, like science.
Actually, the Catholic Church has long maintained that literal interpretation of the Bible is not only incorrect, but can be dangerous. Should also be noted that there is a BIG difference between teaching people not to take the Bible literally and saying the Bible is wrong. Nowhere in the Church’s teachings (previous or current) do they say the Bible is wrong, should be ignored, is incorrect or invalid. What they’re saying is that people studying the Bible need to look past the literal and understand the meaning of the parable.
Great topic