Pope Benedict XVI
April 19, 2005 - present
Encyclicals Links to Vatican website
Index of Encyclicals by Pope Benedict XVI - Vatican site - multiple
languages
Coming Soon
Pope Benedict XVI's third encyclical, "Caritas in
Veritate" (Love in Truth ),
will deal with
international social problems, with special focus on developing
nations. Likely to be released by Summer 2008..
Spe Salvi
(Saved by Hope )
[Encyclical] November 30, 2007
Deus Caritas Est (On Christian Love - God is Love ) [Encyclical] January 25, 2006
Other Writings
Angelus/Regina Coeli
Apostolic Letters
Doctrinal Note on Some Aspects of
Evangelization (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), December
14, 2007 (Other languages can be found on the
CDF Doctrinal documents page )
Summary document [English ]
[Italian ]
Homilies
Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with
Regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in View of Their Admission to
the Seminary and to Holy Orders From the Congregation for
Catholic Education, November 4, 2005
Letter to the Bishops, Priests, Consecrated Persons and the Lay Faithful
in the People's Republic of China [Letter] [English ]
[Several
other languages ] May 27, 2007
Letters
Meeting with the Representatives of Science
[Speech]
September 12, 2006
Messages
Motu Propio
Motu Proprio which reinstates the traditional
norms for the majority required to elect the Supreme Pontiff, June 11, 2007
[Latin ]
Responses to Certain Questions of the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops Concerning Artificial Nutrition and Hydration , (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
) August 1, 2007
Vatican Commentary on Responses to Certain Questions of the United
States Conference of Catholic Bishops Concerning Artificial Nutrition
and Hydration
Responses to some questions regarding certain aspects of the Doctrine of
the Church , Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, June
29, 2007
Sacramentum Caritatis
(Sacrament of Charity) [Apostolic Exhortation] February 22, 2007
Speeches
Summorum Pontificum Motu
Propio on the liberalization of the indult for the Traditional Roman
Mass
[English ] [Latin ] - July 7, 2007
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Letter to Bishops which accompanied Summorum Pontificum