The Catholic Biblical Federation can be regarded as a “child” of the Second Vatican Council. The idea to create such an organization for promoting the biblical apostolate was first suggested in 1950 by the Austrian canon, Pius Parsch. Bishop Emile Cekada of Skopje also made a proposal to call an organization of this kind to life on October 6, 1964 during the third session of the Second Vatican Council and this proposal was finally brought to fruition in 1968 by Cardinal Bea who called together delegates of European Catholic biblical organizations and representatives of religious publishing houses to a meeting in Rome.
Finally, on April 16, 1969, the Federation was called into existence under the auspices of Cardinal Willebrands, successor to Cardinal Bea as President of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity (now: Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity). Initially called “World Catholic Federation for the Biblical Apostolate”, its name was simplified to “Catholic Biblical Federation” (CBF) in 1990.
Statements on the 35th anniversary of CBF came from:
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(The contributions have been left in the original languages. They explicitly reflect the personal opinions of the individual writers.)
Further
information can be found on the CBF website:
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