
KEY PAPAL DOCUMENTS
Pope Francis released his Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ on June 18, 2015 in Rome, with the subtitle, ‘On care for our common home.’
The encyclical calls on us to be protectors of one another, and of the environment.
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Pope Francis released his Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti on October 3, 2020 in Rome, with the subtitle, ‘On Fraternity and Social Friendship’.
“As I was writing this letter, the Covid-19 pandemic unexpectedly erupted, exposing our false securities…For all our hyper-connectivity, we witnessed a fragmentation that made it more difficult to resolve problems that affect us all…
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Pope Francis released his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium on November 24, 2013 in Rome, with the subtitle, ‘The Joy of the Gospel’.
“…[183]… An authentic faith – which is never comfortable or completely personal – always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better that we found it. We love this magnificent planet on which God has put us, and we love the human family which dwells here, with all its tragedies and struggles, its hopes and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. The earth is our common home and all of us are brothers and sisters. If indeed “the just ordering of society and of the state is a central responsibility of politics”, the Church “cannot and must not remain on the sidelines in the fight for justice”.
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PAPAL MESSAGES
World Day of Migrants and Refugees
- 108th World Day of Migrants & Refugees 2022
- 107th World Day of Migrants & Refugees 2021
- 106th World Day of Migrants & Refugees 2020
- 105th World Day of Migrants & Refugees 2019
- 104th World Day of Migrants & Refugees 2018
- 103rd World Day of Migrants & Refugees_2017
- 102nd World Day of Migrants & Refugees_2016
- 101st World Day of Migrants & Refugees_2015
- 100th World Day of Migrats & Refugees_2014
World Day of the Poor
- 6th World Day of the Poor_2022
- 5th World Day of the Poor_2021
- 4th World Day of the Poor_2020
- 3rd World Day of the Poor_2019
- 2nd World Day of the Poor_2018
- 1st World Day of the Poor_2017
World Day of Grandparents & the Elderly
Other Papal Messages
Encyclical Letters
Apostolic Exhortation
- “Querida Amazonia”: To the People of God and to All Persons of Good Will (2 February 2020)
- “Christus Vivit”: To Young People and to the Entire People of God (25 March 2019)
- Gaudete et Exsultate: Apostolic Exhortation on the Call to Holiness in Today’s World (19 March 2018)
- Amoris Laetitia : Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on Love in the Family (19 March 2016)
- Evangelii Gaudium : Apostolic Exhortation on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today’s World (24 November 2013)
Bull of Indiction