{"id":27827,"date":"2013-07-05T06:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T10:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/lumen-fidei-the-light-of-faith\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T06:09:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T10:09:49","slug":"lumen-fidei-the-light-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/lumen-fidei-the-light-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumen Fidei (&#8220;The Light of Faith&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Francis%20arms%20Foppoli.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Francis arms Foppoli.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/07\/Francis arms Foppoli-thumb-250x341-14741.jpeg\" width=\"250\" height=\"341\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Pope Francis published his first encyclical today. <i>Lumen Fidei<\/i> (&#8220;The Light of Faith&#8221;), comes in the middle of the Year of Faith. The Pope told bishops,&nbsp; &#8220;It&#8217;s an encyclical written with four hands, so to speak, because Pope Benedict began writing it and he gave it to me. It&#8217;s a strong document. I will say in it that I received it and most of the work was done by him and I completed it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><b>The full text<\/b> is here:&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Lumen%20Fidei.pdf\">Lumen Fidei.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Pope Benedict set out to write encyclicals on the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity. Two have been done and <i>Lumen Fidei<\/i> completes the course of study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Thus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/benedict_xvi\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est_en.html\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); \"><b>Deus Caritas Est<\/b><\/span><\/a> on charity in 2005 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/benedict_xvi\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); \"><b>Spe Salvi<\/b><\/span><\/a> on hope in 2007.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Pope Benedict&#8217;s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/benedict_xvi\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); \"><b>Caritas in Veritate<\/b><\/span><\/a> (Charity in Truth), published in 2009 focused on Catholic social teachings of the Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><i>Lumen Fidei <\/i>was presented Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation of Bishops, Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig M&uuml;ller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/attualita.vatican.va\/sala-stampa\/bollettino\/2013\/07\/05\/news\/31359.html#Testo%20in%20lingua%20inglese\">presentation is here<\/a> in various languages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis published his first encyclical today. Lumen Fidei (&#8220;The Light of Faith&#8221;), comes in the middle of the Year of Faith. The Pope told bishops,&nbsp; &#8220;It&#8217;s an encyclical written with four hands, so to speak, because Pope Benedict began writing it and he gave it to me. It&#8217;s a strong document. I will say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/lumen-fidei-the-light-of-faith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lumen Fidei (&#8220;The Light of Faith&#8221;)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,84,83],"tags":[3235,1716,3236,32107,32106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}