Pope Benedict XVI on the truth of the Bible:

"Thus we can see how the Bible itself constantly readapts its images to a continually developing way of thinking, how it changes time and again in order to bear witness, time and again, to the one thing that has come to it, in truth, from God's Word, which is the message of his creating act.  In the Bible itself the images are free and they correct themselves ongoingly.  In this way they show, by means of a gradual and interactive process, that they are only images, which reveal something deeper and greater."

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 'In the Beginning...': A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), p. 15.

From 1981 to 2005, Cardinal Ratzinger was Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (in earlier times called "The Inquisition"). He became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.