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Church Documents
Documents of Church Councils
Council of Trent (1545-1563)
Vatican II documents (1962-1965)
- Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy)
- Inter Mirifica (The Means of Social Communication)
- Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church)
- Orientalium Ecclesiarum (Eastern Rite Catholic Churches)
- Unitatis Redintegratio (Decree on Ecumenism)
- Christus Dominus (The Pastoral Office of Bishops)
- Perfectae Caritatis (Renewal of Religious Life)
- Optatam Totius (Decree on Priestly Training)
- Gravissimum Educationis (Decree on Christian Education)
- Nostra Aetate (The Church and Non-Christian Religions)
- Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation)
- Apostolicam Actuositatem (The Apostolate of Lay People)
- Dignitatis Humanae (Declaration on Religious Freedom)
- Ad Gentes (The Church's Missionary Activity)
- Presbyterorum Ordinis (Ministry and Life of Priests)
- Gaudium et Spes (The Church in the Modern World)
Selected Papal Encyclicals and Pronouncements
Encylcicals Hosted at CICI: (Special thanks to EWTN)
- Pius XII (1939 - 1958)
- John XXIII (1958 - 1963)
- Paul VI (1963 - 1978)
- John Paul II (1978 - present)
On-line papal documents are now stored at American University. Some are HTML, others are
plain text.
Other documents can be found at CalTech:
Writings from the early Church (1-500)