Pope Benedict XVI – Addresses, Homilies and Encyclicals
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April 19, 2005 – Present
Index of Encyclicals by Pope Benedict XVI
- Caritas in veritate (Charity in Truth) Encyclical, June 29, 2009
[English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish] - Spe Salvi
(Saved by Hope),
November 30, 2007
- Deus Caritas Est (On Christian Love – God is Love), 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
- 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]
- 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 - Letter to Bishops which accompanied Summorum Pontificum







