What is Veritas Splendor?

[missionarybelle]

What is Veritas Splendor? I know it's an encyclical by JP II but what in the short, is it about?

[phatcatholic]

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

[Cam42]

In short, it is the greatest statement of moral theology in the 20th century. Period.