The press office of the Santa Sede informs it on January 25 that the Pope Francisco names new members for the Pontifical Biblical Commission, between them, in two women.
First of all, the Santo Padre numbered in Spanish sacred Andrés María García Serrano, who is currently Professor of the New Testament at the San Dámaso Ecclesiastical University in Madrid (Spain).
Además, el Papa nombró al P. Marcin Kowalski, professor of the New Testament at the Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), al P. Blažej Štrba, professor at the Comenius University of Bratislava, Badín (Eslovaquia) and al P. Philippe Lefebvre, OP, Professor of the Old Testament at the University of Friburgo (Switzerland).
Asimismo, serán membros de la Pontificia Comisión Bíblica tres actuales profesores del Pontificio Instituto Bíblico de Roma: el P. Federico Giuntoli, Professor of the Old Testament; el P. Paul Béré, SI (Burkina Faso) and P. Henry Pattarumadathil, SI, (India).
Luego, el Papa nombró también a dos profesoras laicas: Bénédicte Lemmelijn, Professor of the Old Testament in the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and Maria Armida Nicolaci, Professor of Sagrada Escritura en la Pontificia Faculty of Theology of Sicily San Giovanni Evangelista, Palermo (Italy).
The Pontifical Biblical Commission is presided over by the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Fa, who is assisted by a vice-president (secretary).
Los Miembros de la Comisión Bíblica, secretari incluido, son nombrados por el Santo Padre, ‘n propuesta del Cardenal Presidente, para un quinquenio opknapbaar.
The body was known as the Pontifical Biblical Commission was constituted by Leon XIII with the apostolic card “Study Vigilance” of October 30, 1902.
In those cases, Santo Padre assigned the new institution a triple function: to promote efficiency among Catholics and the biblical studio; contrast with the scientific media the opinions expressed in the matter of Sagrada Escritura; study and illuminate the debating issues and problems that arise in the campus.