Can you guys recommend some essential encyclicals everyone should read?

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What are 5 encyclicals every traditional catholic should read? :cool:
 
Mystrx said:
What are 5 encyclicals every traditional catholic should read? :cool:
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  1. *] Providentissimus Deus of Pope Leo XIII, 1893. Inerrency of the Bible.
    *] Pascendi Dominici Gregis of St. Pope Pius X, 1907. Against Modernism - condemns relativism, individualism, and agnosticism.
    *] Casti Connubii of Pope Pius XI, 1930. Against Contraception.
    *] Pacem in Terris of Pope John XXIII, 1963. Affirming world peace.
    *] Veritatis Splendor of St. Pope John Paul II, 1993. Moral Theology.

    papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13provi.htm
    papalencyclicals.net/Pius10/p10pasce.htm
    papalencyclicals.net/Pius11/P11CASTI.HTM
    papalencyclicals.net/John23/j23pacem.htm
    w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_06081993_veritatis-splendor.html

    Also from 1951, Pope Pius XII, Address to Midwives on the Nature of Their Profession on natural family planning, referring to Casti Connubii:
    papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12midwives.htm
 
Excellent I’ll look those all up and give them a good study. Thanks. Oh, and anymore suggestions are welcome of course. :tiphat:
 
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What about Humanae Vitae?
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Humanae Vitae is good. But also be sure to read Casti Connubii:

*Since, therefore, openly departing from the uninterrupted Christian tradition some recently have judged it possible solemnly to declare another doctrine regarding this question, the Catholic Church, to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being defiled by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of her divine ambassadorship and through Our mouth proclaims anew: any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin. *

They just don’t write like that anymore!

I also like Unam Sanctam. Short and sweet with the money line being the very last sentence. Let me know if you can reconcile VII, the current catechism, and Unam Sanctam regarding salvation.
 
I really like Fides et Ratio (“On the relationship between faith and reason”), Pope St. John Paul II, 1998.

–Jen
 
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I also like Unam Sanctam. Short and sweet with the money line being the very last sentence. Let me know if you can reconcile VII, the current catechism, and Unam Sanctam regarding salvation.
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There should be no problem, since the Church does not contradict itself.
 
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