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25th Anniversary of ‘Fides et Ratio’

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Twenty years into his pontificate, Pope St. John Paul II promulgated perhaps the most substantial magisterial document to date on the relationship between faith and reason, philosophy and theology, and the universal quest for truth in his 1998 encyclical, Fides et Ratio. The sometime-ethics-professor-turned-pontiff was uniquely positioned to write on the topic, and one sees Read More
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‘Pacem in Terris’ at 60

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This month the Church commemorates the 60th anniversary of Pope St. John XXIII’s most influential and final writing: Pacem in Terris (“Peace on Earth”), published only two months before his death. In this final encyclical from the saintly pope, devoted to one of the great themes of his pontificate and later of the Second Vatican Read More
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‘Laborem Exercens,’ 40 Years Later

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Following in the tradition of his predecessors, St. John Paul II wrote two social encyclicals on anniversaries of the publication of the first social encyclical, Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum. This year marks 40 years since the publication of John Paul’s Laborem Exercens, written to commemorate Rerum Novarum’s 90th anniversary. While Laborem Exercens might stand Read More

Imitating the Good Samaritan Today

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Fratelli Tutti, released Oct. 3, 2020, and subtitled “On Fraternity and Social Friendship,” focuses on a theme, which had been endorsed also by the Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew and Grand Imam Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, “God has created all human beings equal in rights, duties and dignity, and has called them to live together as brothers and sisters” Read More