Changelog (03 March 2025)
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Magisterial documents (+135)
- Letter for the concession of ecclesiastical communion to His Beatitude Ignatius Youssif III Younan, Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch (Lebanon) (January 22, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the President of the Republic of Hungary on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Budapest uprising (October 7, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Giovanni Battista Re, Special Envoy at the solemn celebration for the 9th centenary of the dedication of the Cathedral of Parma (October 6, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. James Francis Stafford, Special Envoy at the celebration for the dedication of the new altar of the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Baltimore (U.S.A.) (October 1, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, on the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination (September 30, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Angelo Sodano, Pontifical Legate at the celebration for the liberty of Hungary (September 23, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Edward Idris Cassidy on the Twentieth Anniversary of the visit of Pope John Paul II to Australia (September 22, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Crescenzio Sepe, Special Envoy at the Asian Mission Congress in Chang Mai (Thailand) (September 20, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Edmund Casimir Szoka for the conclusion of his office as President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and President of the Governorate of Vatican City State (September 15, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Angelo Sodano for his retirement from the office of Secretary of State (September 15, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez, Special Envoy at the closing ceremonies of the Plenary Council of Venezuela (September 8, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Interreligious Meeting of Prayer for Peace (September 2, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to His Serene Highness, Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein, on the occasion of the second centenary of the Principality of Liechtenstein (July 11, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Spanish Bishops during the visit to the Cathedral and the Basilica of the "Virgen de los Desamparados" in Valencia (July 8, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Fiorenzo Angelini on the 50th anniversary of his Episcopal Ordination (July 6, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to His Holiness Bartholomew I on the occasion of the 6th Symposium on "Religion, Science and the Environment" under the title "Amazon, Source of Life" (July 6, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaunas on the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Ecclesiastical Province and the creation of the Archdiocese of Kaunas (June 23, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the faithful of the Archdiocese of Genoa, in Italy (June 22, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Bishop of Fulda on the occasion of the 6th Congress "Freude am Glauben" (June 13, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Bishop of Trier on occasion of the 96th edition of the German 'Katholikentag' (May 15, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, Special Envoy in Singapore on the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations with the Holy See (May 18, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Superior General of the Society of Jesus on the 50th anniversary of the Encyclical Haurietis Aquas (May 15, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Camillo Ruini on occasion of the 25 year remembrance of the assassination attempt of the Servant of God John Paul II (May 13, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to participants of the XII Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (April 27, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the participants of the Plenary Session of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (April 24, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Exchange of letters between his Holiness Benedict XVI and His Beatitude Antonios Naguib, Patriarch of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholics for the concession of ecclesial communion (April 6, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.J., Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Special Envoy to the 15th National Eucharistic Congress of Brazil (Florianópolis, 18-21 May 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, Special Envoy for the solemn celebrations that will take place at Ariano Irpino on the 20 May 2006, on the 17th Centenary of the martyrdom of Saint Liberatore (March 25, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Special Envoy at the celebration that will take place in Lima (Peru) on the first centenary of the death of Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo (March 4, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Antonio María Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid, Special Envoy at the celebration of the fifth centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier (March 3, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halič (February 22, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Exchange of letters between the Holy Father and His Holiness Aleksij II Patriarch of Moscow and All The Russias (February 17, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter on occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Mons. Luigi Giussani (February 2, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino on occasion of the XX Anniversary of the National Cuban Ecclesial Meeting (ENEC) (February 2, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Walter Kasper on occasion of the Ninth General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Porto Alegre, Brazil (January 25, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Javier Lozano Barragán, Special Envoy at the 14th World Day of the Sick that will be celebrated in Adelaide (Australia) on 11 February 2006 (January 6, 2006) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Diocese of Essen (December 16, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the President of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil on the occasion of the Brotherhood Campaign 2008 (December 8, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to His Holiness Bartholomaios I, Archbishop of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch, on the occasion of the feast of St. Andrew (November 23, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to H.E. Msgr. Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, on the occasion of the 12th Public Session of the Pontifical Academies (November 8, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Prof. Giovanni Maria Vian, new Editor-in-Chief of "L'Osservatore Romano" (October 27, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, H.E. Msgr. Angelo Bagnasco, on the occasion of the centenary of the First Italian Catholic Social Week (October 12, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo on the occasion of the World Meeting of Families which will be held in 2009 in Mexico City (October 1, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to His Beatitude Daniel, Archbishop of Bucharest, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (September 27, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, Pontifical Legate at the closing celebrations of the 90th anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima (September 16, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Walter Kasper on the occasion of the Tenth Inter-Christian Symposium in the Island of Tinos, Greece (September 12, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on the occasion of the Mission Year in Lisieux (France) (September 12 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Godfried Danneels, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the millennium of the construction of the Basilica of Saint-Remi in Reims (France) (September 10, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the children of the Pontifical Missionary Childhood Society (September 3, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on the occasion of the Seventh Symposium of the Religion, Science and the Environment movement (September 1, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to readers of Austrian Catholic newspapers (September 1, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Professor Mario Agnes (August 20, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the participants in the Third European Ecumenical Assembly organized by the Council of European Episcopal Conferences and by the Conference of European Churches (August 20, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Special Envoy at the Closing Celebrations of the "European City Mission" in Budapest (Hungary) (August 16, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Prior General of the Order of the Friars of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel on the occasion of the eighth centenary of the Formula Vitæ (August 14, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter on the occasion of the death of His Beatitude Teoctist, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (August 1, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Emeritus Bishop of Belluno-Feltre, H.E. Msgr. Maffeo Ducoli, on the feast of Saint John Gualberto (July 12, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the parish priest of Lorenzago di Cadore on the occasion of the concert offered to him on the feast of Saint Benedict (July 11, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean (June 29, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Venerable Kahjun Handa on the occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Religious Summit Meeting on Mount Hiei, Japan (June 23, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, President of the Episcopal Conference of France on the first centenary of the first experimental Scout camp (June 22, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Bishop of Noto for the re-opening of the Cathedral of Noto (June 15, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Péter Erdő, Primate of Hungary, on the occasion of the eighth centenary of the birth of St Elizabeth of Thuringia or of Hungary (May 27, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Renato Raffaele Martino on the 50th anniversary of his Priestly Ordination (May 20, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Ivan Dias on the 25th anniversary of his Episcopal Ordination (May 19, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Friedrich Wetter, Special Envoy at the celebrations of the millennium of the Archdiocese of Bamberg in Germany (May 1, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Ennio Antonelli, Archbishop of Florence, on the fourth centenary of the death of Saint Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi (April 29, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on the occasion of the thirteenth Plenary Session (April 28, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter on the occasion of the special Weekly Spanish edition of L'Osservatore Romano (April 27, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Angelo Sodano, Pontifical Legate at the opening celebrations for the 90th anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fátima (April 13, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Ivan Dias, Special Envoy at the closing celebrations of the first centenary of evangelization of Northern Ghana (April 5, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Eduardo Martínez Somalo on the occasion of his resignation from office of Camerlengo of Holy Roman Church (April 4, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the President of the Republic of Rwanda on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda (April 3, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Renato Raffaele Martino, Special Envoy at the celebrations on the fifth centenary of the death of Saint Francis of Paola (April 2, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Alfons Maria Stickler on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of priesthood (March 26, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Giacomo Biffi at the conclusion of the Spiritual Exercises held for the Roman Curia (March 3, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Presentation of the book written by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone entitled "The Last Seer of Fatima" (February 22, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Camaldolese Order on the occasion of the feast of St. Peter Damian (February 20, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. José Saraiva Martins on the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination (February 16, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to H.E. Mr. Roh Moo-hyun, President of the Republic of Korea (February 15, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Giovanni Battista Re on the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination (February 8, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Javier Lozano Barragán, Special Envoy at the 15th World Day of the Sick that will be celebrated in Seoul (Korea) on 11 February 2007 (January 12, 2007) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to H. Em. Card. Tarcisio Bertone, Pontifical Legate at the 6th World Meeting of Families (2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Herranz, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the 1750th anniversary of the martyrdom of Bishop St Fructuoso and of the Deacons Saints Augurio and Eulogio, protomartyrs of Tarragona (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the President of the Republic of Chile on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Pontifical Mediation in solving the controversy between Argentina and Chile (November 29, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the President of the Republic of Argentina on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Pontifical Mediation in solving the controversy between Argentina and Chile (November 29, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Franc Rodé, C.M., Special Envoy at the closing celebrations of the Jubilee year of the Cistercian Abbey of Waldsassen (Germany) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter for the funeral of H.E. Msgr. Wilhelm Emil Egger, Bishop of Bolzano-Bressanone (August 20, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Msgr. Luciano Monari on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI (July 26, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Renato Raffaele Martino on the occasion of the "Day of the Holy See" at Expo Zaragoza 2008 (July 10, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Meisner, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the fourth centenary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Šiluva (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Danneels, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the first millennium of the pilgrimage in honour of Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Cláudio Hummes, O.F.M., Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of priestly ordination (July 3, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Paul Poupard, Special Envoy at the 22nd International Marian-Mariological Congress (2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Camillo Ruini, Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his Episcopal Ordination (June 19, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to delegates and all those attending the Seventh General Assembly of the Catholic Biblical Federation (June 12, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Special Envoy at the celebrations of the Third American Missionary Congress (CAM3) and of the Eighth Latin American Missionary Congress (COMLA8) [Quito, Ecuador, 12-17 August 2008] (June 2, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to His Holiness Alexis II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (May 19, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, President of the Episcopal Conference of France, on the occasion of the centenary of the Frat (Fraternel) (April 12, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Renato Raffaele Martino on the occasion of the International Study Seminar promoted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on the theme: "Disarmament, Development and Peace. Prospects for Integral Disarmament" (April 10, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Jozef Tomko, Emeritus President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, Pontifical Legate at the celebrations for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec (Canada) (April 9, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Walter Kasper, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the 800th centenary of of the translation of St. Andrew's relics to Amalfi (April 4, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Godfried Danneels, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the 1350th anniversary of the birth of St Willibrord (April 2, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Godfried Danneels, Special Envoy at the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Vierge des Pauvres (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Ivan Dias, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the new Christian Millennium in Ethiopia on the occasion of the National Eucharistic Congress (March 27, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Tarcisio Bertone on the occasion of the Funeral Mass for Chiara Lubich, Foundress of the Work of Mary - Focolare Movement (March 18, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Fr. Pascual Chávez Villanueva, S.D.B., Rector Major, on the occasion of the 26th General Chapter of the Salesians of Don Bosco (March 1st, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to His Beatitude Ignace Pierre VIII Abdel-Ahad, Patriarch of the Church of Antioch for Syrian Catholics (January 25, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the faithful of the Diocese and City of Rome on the urgent task of educating young people (January 21, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach on the occasion of the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (January 10, 2008) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Archbishop of Vancouver on the occasion of the 21st Olympic Winter Games and the 10th Paralympic Winter Games (December 30, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Karl Lehmann on the occasion of the millennium of the Cathedral of Mainz (November 1, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to H. Em. Card. Jozef Tomko, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the closing of the 150th anniversary of the evangelization of Taiwan (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to H. Em. Card. Franc Rodé, C.M., Special Envoy at the celebrations for the 12th centenary of the transfer of the relics of Saint Martyr Trifon to Kotor (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the death of St. Ludgerus (September 3, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to H.Em. Card. Franc Rodé, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the first millennium of the Archdiocese of Alba Iulia (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to H.Em. Card. Joachim Meisner, Special Envoy to the celebrations for the 12th centenary of the death of St. Ludgerus, first Bishop of Münster and "Apostle of the Saxons and Frisians" (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to H.Em. Card. Christoph Schönborn, O.P., Archbishop of Vienna, Special Envoy to the celebrations of the millennium of the Diocese of Pécs, Hungary (August 5, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Hon. Mr. Silvio Berlusconi, President of the Italian Council of Ministers, on the occasion of the G8 Summit [L'Aquila, 8-10 July 2009] (July 1, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to H.Em. Card. Francis Arinze, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the 9th Plenary Assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Pontifical Legate for the millennium anniversary celebration of Lithuania (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Delegate at the celebrations for the Ecclesiastical Communion with the Patriarch of Antioch for Syrian Catholics (June 18, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter Proclaiming a Year for Priests on the 150th Anniversary of the Dies Natalis of the Curé of Ars (June 16, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the Fourth Centenary of the Archdiocese of Ayacucho (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Cardinal Walter Kasper, Special Envoy at the celebrations for the closing of the Pauline Year in the Holy Land (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bucureşti, on the 10th anniversary of the journey of the Servant of God John Paul II to Romania (May 6, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to President Horst Köhler of the Federal Republic of Germany on the content of the Apostolic Journey to Africa (May 4, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. O'Brien, Special Envoy at the celebrations on the occasion of the first centenary of foundation of the church of Long Tower (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Giacomo Biffi, Special Envoy at the celebrations marking the ninth centenary of the death of St. Anselm (April 15, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Special Envoy at the celebrations for the 17th centenary of the martyrdom of Bishop St Quirino (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Special Envoy at the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Pastoral Journey of the Servant of God John Paul II to Thailand (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. Salvatore De Giorgi, Special Envoy to the closing celebration for the first millennium of the dedication of the Co-Cathedral of Sarsina (Italy) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. José Saraiva Martins, Special Envoy to celebrations marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Shrine of Christ the King (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to Card. José Saraiva Martins, Special Envoy at the final celebrations of the Jubilee year on the occasion of the seventh centenary of devotion to Our Lady of Europe (2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Letter to the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, at the vigil of the G20 Summit in London (March 30, 2009) (Pope Benedict XVI)