Documents from the Catholic Church

From the Catholic Magisterium

Vatican Council I, Dogmatic Constitution Dei Filius, on Revelation, Faith and Reason, April 24, 1870

Pius XII, On Evolution and Monogenism

[Excerpts from Humani generis, August 12, 1950]

Vatican Council II, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, December 7, 1965

[Excerpts from nn. 19-22; 33-39; 57-62]

John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Fides et Ratio on the Relationship between Faith and Reason, September 14, 1998

Benedict XVI, Faith, Reason and the University, Speech delivered at the University of Regensburg (Germany), September 12, 2006

Benedict XVI, Lecture prepared for the visit to the university “La Sapienza”, Rome, January 17, 2008

[The following is the Address that the Pope Benedict XVI intended to give during a visit to La Sapienza University in Rome, on January 17, 2008]

Benedict XVI, Speech delivered at the Catholic University of America in Washington, April 17, 2008

From Other Institutions related to the Catholic Church

U.S. Delegation at the 1977 Synod of Bishops, Message to the Synod on The Relationship between the Church and the Scientific Community (1977)

Secretariat for Non Believers, Final Declaration on Modern Science and Non Believing (1981)

Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Final Statement of the Workshop The Challenges of Science, Education for the 21st Century (1991)

Pontifical Council for Culture, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Jesus Christ, the Bearer of the Water of Life. A Christian Reflection on the New Age, February, 3, 2003