PAPAL DOCUMENTS
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS WERE REFERENCED IN PART WHEN COMPILING INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE
Ad Gentes – Decree on the Mission Activity of the Church – December 7, 1965 – Pope Paul VI
Apostolicam Actuositatem – Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity – November 18, 1965 – Pope Paul VI
Caritas in veritate – Encyclical Letter on Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth – June 29, 2009 – Pope Benedict XVI
Create in Me a Clean Heart – A Pastoral Response to Pornography – USCCB 11-17-2015
Deus caritas est – Encyclical Letter on Christian Love – December 25, 2005 – Pope Benedict XVI
Dei Verbum – Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation – November 18, 1965 – Pope Paul VI
Dominum et vivificantem – On the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church and the World – 18 May 1986 – Pope John Paul II
Ecclesia de Eucharistia – Encyclical Letter on the Eucharist in its Relationship to the Church – 17 April 2003 – Pope John Paul II
Evangelii Gaudium – Apostolic Exhortation on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today’s World – 24 November 2013 – Pope Francis
Evangelium Vitae – Encyclical Letter on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life – 25 March 1995 – Pope John Paul II
Familiaris Consortio – Apostolic Exhortation on the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World – November 22, 1981 – Pope John Paul II
Gaudium Et Spes – Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World – POPE PAUL VI on December 7, 1965
Humanae Vitae – Encyclical Letter on the Regulation of Birth – July 6, 1968 – POPE PAUL VI
Instrumentum Laboris – The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and the Contemporary World – Synod of Bishops – Vatican City 2015
LAUDATO SI’ – Pope Francis On Care For Our Common Home – May 24, 2015
Lumen Fidei – Encyclical Letter on Faith – 29 June 2013 – Pope Francis
Lumen Gentium – Dogmatic Constitution on the Church – POPE PAUL VI on November 21, 1964
Misericordiae Vultus – Bull of indiction of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy – 11 April 2015 – Pope Francis
Munificentissimus Deus – Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XII Defining the Dogma of the Assumption – November 1, 1950
NOSTRA AETATE – Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions – Proclaimed by POPE PAUL VI on October 28, 1965
Novo Millennio Ineunte – Apostolic Letter to the Bishops, Clergy and Lay Faithful at the Close of the Great jubilee of the Year 2000 – 6 January 2001 – John Paul II
PERSONA HUMANA – Declaration On Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics – Sacred Congregation For The Doctrine Of The Faith
Redemptoris Missio – On the Permanent Validity of the Church’s Missionary Mandate – 7 December 1990 – John Paul II
Rerum Novarum – Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII On Capital and Labor (May 15, 1891)
Solemn Hac Liturgia – Credo of the People of God – (Apostolic Letter In The Form Of Motu Proprio) The Supreme Pontiff PAUL VI – June 30, 1968