four hands - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:23:26 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg four hands - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Four-handed encyclical will deal with faith https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/07/05/four-handed-encyclical-will-deal-with-faith/ Thu, 04 Jul 2013 19:02:00 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=46509 Pope Francis is about to publish his first encyclical, called Lumen Fidei (Light of Faith), which he has said is largely the work of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. "It's an encyclical written with four hands, so to speak, because Pope Benedict began writing it and he gave it to me," Pope Francis said. "It's a Read more

Four-handed encyclical will deal with faith... Read more]]> Pope Francis is about to publish his first encyclical, called Lumen Fidei (Light of Faith), which he has said is largely the work of his predecessor, Benedict XVI.

"It's an encyclical written with four hands, so to speak, because Pope Benedict began writing it and he gave it to me," Pope Francis said. "It's a strong document. I will say in it that I received it and most of the work was done by him and I completed it."

The new encyclical will complete the trio begun by Benedict XVI with his Deus Caritas Est (2005) on charity, and Spe Salvi (2007) on hope.

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