THE SACRED WRITER To understand it better, I would like to refer to how the Catholic Church deals with the idea of the sacred writer, the writer who captures what he understands to be the word of God. When we say that the texts are words of God, one could imagine that God has dictated the phrases that he wanted to reach readers in the author´s ear that´s how represented the authors of the sacred books are usually represented in many of the paintings seen in the churches. However,