Bring the Bible into the life of the People of God that they may know how to face the unprecedented challenges that the modern age poses to the new evangelization. This is what Benedict XVI said in his speech to the students of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, which is currently celebrating its centenary.

Recalling the Vatican Council II Dogmatic Constitution on the role of Sacred Scripture in the life of the Church, the Pope noted that reading Scripture as a unified whole means reading it on the basis of the Church and maintaining faith in the Church as the true key for its interpretation.

Tradition does not close access to Scripture, but it opens it. Furthermore it is the Church, in her institutions, that has the decisive word in the interpretation of Scripture. It is, in fact, the Church that is entrusted with the task of authentically interpreting the Word of God as written and transmitted, exercising her authority in the name of Jesus Christ.