This year marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most powerfully prophetic social justice and peace encyclicals ever ...

(RNS) — The Catholic Church is often said to think in terms of centuries, not years or even decades. But here in the United States, always a country on a hurry-up schedule, St. John Paul II’s ...

Perhaps the signal piece of pro-life teaching in the Catholic Church, “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”) put the pontiff’s stamp on what had come to be called the “consistent ...

14 Cf. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation Donum Vitae: AAS 80 (1988), 70-102. 15 Address during the ...

The publication of Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) 30 years ago marked a high-water mark of the pontificate of St. John Paul the Great. Signed on the Solemnity of the Annunciation (March 25 ...

In his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" (The Gospel of Life) issued March 25, 1995 after four years of consultations with the world's Roman Catholic bishops, John Paul II wrote that execution is only ...