Benedict XVI

Writings

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" on certain modifications to the norms governing the election of the Roman Pontiff

  22 February 2013 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" “Fides per Doctrinam” whereby the Apostolic Constitution “Pastor Bonus” is modified and competence for catechesis is transferred from the Congregation for the Clergy to the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization

  16 January 2013 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" “Ministrorum Institutio” whereby the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus is modified and responsibility for seminaries is transferred from the Congregation for Catholic Education to the Congregation for the Clergy

  16 January 2013 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" Intima Ecclesiae natura on the Service of Charity

  11 November 2012 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" Latina Lingua establishing the Pontifical Academy for

  10 November 2012 Read here

• Apostolic Letter proclaiming Hildegard of Bingen as a Doctor of the Church

  October 7, 2012 Read here

• Apostolic Letter proclaiming John of Ávila as a Doctor of the Church

  7 October 2012 Read here

• Ecclesia in Medio Oriente

  14 September 2012 Read here

• Proclamation of St John of Avila and St Hildegarde of Bingen as “Doctors of the Church”

  October 7, 2012 Read here

• Africae Munus

  19 November 2011 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" Porta Fidei for the Indiction of the Year of Faith

  11 October 2011 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" Quaerit semper

  August 30, 2011 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" Ubicumque et semper of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI establishing the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization

  September 21, 2010 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" for the prevention and countering of illegal activities in the area of monetary and financial dealings

  December 30, 2010 Read here

• Verbum Domini

  30 September 2010 Read here

• Anglicanorum Coetibus Providing for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans Entering Into Full Communion With The Catholic Church

  November 4, 2009 Read here

• Anglicanorum coetibus Providing for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans Entering into Full Communion with the Catholic Church

  November 4, 2009 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" Ecclesiae unitatem

  July 2, 2009 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" Omnium in mentem, modifying some canons of the Code of Canon Law

  October 26, 2009 Read here

• Caritas in Veritate

  29 Jun 2009 Landmark Read here

  On integral human development in charity and truth in the global economy.

• Caritas in veritate

  June 29, 2009 Read here

• Apostolic Letter Antiqua ordinatione given motu proprio, by which the Lex propria of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura is promulgated

  June 21, 2008 Read here

• Apostolic Letter to Card. Joachim Meisner on the occasion of the 7th centenary of the death of blessed John Duns Scotus

  October 28, 2008 Read here

• Doctrinal Note on Some Aspects of Evangelization (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)

  December 14, 2007 Read here

• Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum on the "Roman liturgy prior to the reform of 1970"

  July 7, 2007 Read here

• 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 Read here

• Responses to some questions regarding certain aspects of the Doctrine of the Church , Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

  June 29, 2007 Read here

• Sacramentum Caritatis

  22 February 2007 Read here

• Spe Salvi

  November 30, 2007 Read here

• Spe Salvi

  30 Nov 2007 Landmark Read here

  On Christian hope grounded in God, not in progress alone.

• Summorum Pontificum [ English ] [ Latin ]

  July 7, 2007 Read here

• Meeting with the Representatives of Science

  September 12, 2006 Read here

• Apostolic Letter by which the Supreme Pontiff has raised to the glory of the altars the Servant of God Clemens August Graf von Galen

  October 9, 2005 Read here

• Apostolic Letter by which the Supreme Pontiff has raised to the glory of the altars the Servants of God 13 Mexican Martyrs: Anacleto González Flores and 8 Companions, José Trinidad Rangel, Andrés Solá Molist, Leonardo Pérez, Darío Acosta Zurita

  November 15, 2005 Read here

• Apostolic Letter by which the Supreme Pontiff has raised to the glory of the altars the Servants of God: Charles de Foucauld, Maria Pia Mastena, Maria Crocifissa Curcio

  November 13, 2005 Read here

• Apostolic Letter by which the Supreme Pontiff has raised to the glory of the altars the Servants of God: Josep Tàpies and six Companions and María de los Ángeles Ginard Martí

  October 29, 2005 Read here

• Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio Totius orbis for the coordination of pastoral activities and initiatives at the Basilicas of Saint Francis and of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi

  9 November 2005 Read here

• Deus Caritas Est

  25 Dec 2005 Landmark Read here

  First encyclical of Benedict XVI: God is love — eros, agape, and the Church’s charity.

• 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 Read here

• Motu Proprio "The Ancient and Venerable Basilica" for the Basilica of St Paul Outside-the-Walls and for its extra-territorial complex

  May 31, 2005 Read here

• Motu Proprio for the approval and publication of the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

  June 28, 2005 Read here

• Africae Munus On the Church in Africa In Service to Reconciliation, Justice and Peace , November 19th, 2011 [ English , French , German , Italian , Polish , Portuguese , Spanish ]

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• Guide to Understanding Basic CDF Procedures concerning Sexual Abuse Allegations

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• Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), December 8th, 2008 [ English , French , German , Italian , Polish , Portuguese , Spanish ] Summary document [ English ]

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• Instruction on the application of the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI given Motu Proprio (April 30, 2011) [ English , French , German , Italian , Latin , Polish , Portuguese , Spanish ] Redactional Note on the Instruction Universae Ecclesiae English , Italian , Spanish ]

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