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Fides et ratio

In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world in a meeting that laid the foundations for today’s World Youth Day. / Credit: Gregorini Demetrio, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Nov 27, 2024

Twenty years into his pontificate, John Paul II released Fides et Ratio—”Faith and Reason”—on the Sept. 14 feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in 1998. 

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