missionarybelle Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 What is Veritas Splendor? I know it's an encyclical by JP II but what in the short, is it about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatcatholic Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 description from Catholic Culture:[list][i]Veritatis Splendor[/i] (Splendor of Truth), Promulgated August 6, 1993, the Feast of the Transfiguration. On Certain Fundamental Questions of the Church's Moral Teaching. Reaffirms widely-attacked moral teachings of the Church and condemns dissent. CONTENTS: (1) 'Teacher, What Good Must I Do?'; (2) 'Do Not Be Conformed to the World' (Freedom & Law, Conscience & Truth, Fundamental Choice and Specific Kinds of Behavior, and the Moral Act); (3) 'Lest the Cross of Christ Be Emptied of its Power.' [/list]here are some articles on this encyclical: [b]--[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/DOCTRINE/CURBDIS.TXT"]Will [i]Veritatis Splendor[/i] Curb the Dissenters?[/url] --[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/DOCTRINE/SOOROBTR.TXT"]Social Order and Objective Truth[/url] --[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/DOCTRINE/VERSPLEN.ZIP"]The [i]Veritatis Splendor[/i] Conference[/url][/b] (click to download zip file) [b]--[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/DOCTRINE/VSDEFEAT.TXT"][i]Veritatis Splendor[/i] Defeats New Morality[/url] --[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/DOCTRINE/VSNEUHAS.TXT"]The Splendor of Truth: A Symposium[/url] --[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/JPFIRM.TXT"]John Paul Stands Firm[/url] --[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/SCRIPTUR/MCCORMIC.TXT"]Richard McCormick vs. the Pope[/url] --[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/SCRIPTUR/SPLENDOR.TXT"]Fr. William Most on [i]Veritatis Splendor[/i][/url] --[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/THEOLOGY/LAWLIB.HTM"]Law and Liberty in [i]Veritatis Splendor[/i][/url] --[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/THEOLOGY/MORALVS.HTM"]Moral Theologians and [i]Veritatis Splendor[/i][/url] --[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/ZDEVIANT.HTM"]When Deviant Behavior Gets Respectable[/url][/b] of course, here is the actual encyclical: [b]--[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/JP2VER.HTM"]Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth)[/url][/b] pax christi, phatcatholic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam42 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 In short, it is the greatest statement of moral theology in the 20th century. Period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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