ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON CATHOLIC ACTION IN ITALY NON ABBIAMO BISOGNO [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']V[/dropcaps]enerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction. We do not need to acquaint you, Venerable Brethren, with the events which have recently occurred in this Our Episcopal city of Rome, and throughout Italy,...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']E[/dropcaps]ncyclical letter of Pope Pius XI promulgated on 11 December 1925 To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren, Greeting and the Apostolic Benediction. In the first Encyclical Letter...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]NTRODUCTION To intensify the apostolic activity of the people of God,(1) the most holy synod earnestly addresses itself to the laity, whose proper and indispensable role in the mission of the Church has already been dealt with in other documents.(2)...
DECREE CONCERNING THE PASTORAL OFFICE OF BISHOPS IN THE CHURCH CHRISTUS DOMINUS PROCLAIMED BY HIS HOLINESS, POPE PAUL VI ON OCTOBER 28, 1965 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]REFACE Christ the Lord, Son of the living God, came that He might save His people from their sins(1) and that all men might be...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]NTRODUCTION The Decree on Ecumenism, aka Unitatitis Redintegratio, was not among the longest or most weighty documents of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, but it was certainly ranks among its greatest achievements. Here is the text in its entirely in html...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]aul, Bishop Servant of the Servants of God Together with the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council for Everlasting Memory [Nostra Aetate] In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together, and the ties between different peoples are becoming...
SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI ON DECEMBER 4, 1963 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]NTRODUCTION Among the wonderful technological discoveries which men of talent, especially in the present era, have made with God's help, the Church welcomes and promotes with special interest those which have a...
Canticle of Mary My Soul Rejoices in the Lord [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']M[/dropcaps]y soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed; the almighty has...
Canticle of Simeon Christ is the light of the nations and the glory of Israel [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']L[/dropcaps]ord, now let you servant go in peace; your word has been fulfilled: my own eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people: a...
Canticle of Zechariah The Messiah and his Forerunner [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]lessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty savior, born of the house of his servant David. Through his holy...