Fides et Ratio

'Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery'. This historic encyclical, Pope John Paul II's thirteenth, succeeds in its stated purpose: to give the people of today fresh confidence!

The critical questions and yearnings of our age cry out from every page of this text. 'At the end of this century, one of our greatest threats is the temptation to despair'. Pope John Paul challenges us to move 'from phenomenon to foundation' and so 'lead people to discov...