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Recent Church Documents

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Relevant Documents From The Past
  • Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Human Births) July 25, 1968
    [Encyclical] of Pope Paul VI, July 25, 1968

  • Mit Brennender Sorge (On the Church and the German Reich)
    [Encyclical] of Pope Pius XI, March 14, 1937

  • Traditi Humilitati (On His Program for His Pontificate)
    [Encyclical] of Pope Pius VIII, May 24, 1829

 

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