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Recent Church Documents

Anglicanorum Coetibus (Providing for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans Entering Into Full Communion With The Catholic Church [Apostolic Constitution], November 4, 2009 [English, Italian]
Complementary Norms for the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) November 4, 2009, [English, Italian]
Caritas in veritate (Charity in Truth) Encyclical, June 29, 2009
[English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
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]
Doctrinal Note on Some Aspects of Evangelization (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), December 14, 2007 (Other languages can be found on the Vatican's CDF Doctrinal documents page)
Summary document [English] [Italian]
Spe Salvi (Saved by Hope) [Encyclical] November 30, 2007
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
Summorum Pontificum [English] [Latin] Motu Propio on the liberalization of the indult for the Traditional Roman Mass - July 7, 2007
- Letter to Bishops which accompanied Summorum Pontificum
Responses to some questions regarding certain aspects of the Doctrine of the Church, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, June 29, 2007

Relevant Documents From The Past

Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Human Births) July 25, 1968
[Encyclical] of Pope Paul VI, July 25, 1968
Mit Brennender Sorge (On the Church and the German Reich)
[Encyclical] of Pope Pius XI, March 14, 1937
Traditi Humilitati (On His Program for His Pontificate)
[Encyclical] of Pope Pius VIII, May 24, 1829

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