GIOVANNI PAOLO II

LETTERA APOSTOLICA
IN FORMA DI « MOTU PROPRIO »

ADNEXA

Iam pridem foras data acta quaedam de pecunia, ad vacationis
beneficia imputata, tuenda et eroganda hic referuntur.

SULLA NUOVA REGOLAMENTAZIONE DEL SISTEMA PENSIONISTICO

Con il Motu Proprio « La preoccupazione », dell'8 settembre 1992, abbiamo istituito presso l'Amministrazione del Patrimonio della Sede Apostolica il Fondo Pensioni, retto dal Regolamento proprio da Noi approvato, a favore « del Personale ecclesiastico, religioso e laico, alle dipendenze della Curia Romana, dello Stato della città del Vaticano, della Radio Vaticana e degli Organismi o Enti, esistenti e futuri anche non aventi sede legale o domicilio nello Stato della Città del Vaticano, gestiti amministrativamente in modo diretto dalla Sede Apostolica e comunque alle dipendenze di tutti gli Enti compresi nel campo di applicazione del Regolamento per le Pensioni del 23 dicembre 1963 ».

APOSTOLIC LETTER
IN THE FORM OF MOTU PROPRIO

MISERICORDIA DEI

ON CERTAIN ASPECTS
OF THE CELEBRATION
OF THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

By the mercy of God, the Father who reconciles us to himself, the Word took flesh in the spotless womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary to save “his people from their sins” (Mt 1:21) and to open for them “the way of eternal salvation”.⁽¹⁾ By identifying Jesus as “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” (Jn 1:29), Saint John the Baptist confirms this mission. In all his deeds and preaching, the Precursor issues a fervent and energetic summons to repentance and conversion, the sign of which is the baptism administered in the waters of the Jordan. Jesus himself underwent this penitential rite (cf. Mt 3:13-17), not because he had sinned, but because “he allows himself to be numbered among sinners; he is already `the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world' (Jn 1:29); already he is anticipating the `baptism' of his bloody death”.⁽²⁾

MOTU PROPRIO
DI SUA SANTITÀ
GIOVANNI PAOLO II
CON IL QUALE VIENE PROMULGATA

LA NUOVA LEGGE FONDAMENTALE
DELLO STATO DELLA CITTÀ DEL VATICANO

Nel Supplemento degli Acta Apostolicae Sedis, ove regolarmente sono pubblicate le Leggi dello Stato della Città del Vaticano, appare oggi il testo di una nuova Legge fondamentale dello Stato della Città del Vaticano, in sostituzione della precedente - la prima - emanata nel 1929 dal Papa Pio XI di v.m.

APOSTOLIC LETTER
ISSUED MOTU PROPRIO
PROCLAIMING SAINT THOMAS MORE
PATRON OF STATESMEN AND POLITICIANS

POPE JOHN PAUL II
FOR PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE

1. The life and martyrdom of Saint Thomas More have been the source of a message which spans the centuries and which speaks to people everywhere of the inalienable dignity of the human conscience, which, as the Second Vatican Council reminds us, is "the most intimate centre and sanctuary of a person, in which he or she is alone with God, whose voice echoes within them" (Gaudium et Spes, 16). Whenever men or women heed the call of truth, their conscience then guides their actions reliably towards good. Precisely because of the witness which he bore, even at the price of his life, to the primacy of truth over power, Saint Thomas More is venerated as an imperishable example of moral integrity. And even outside the Church, particularly among those with responsibility for the destinies of peoples, he is acknowledged as a source of inspiration for a political system which has as its supreme goal the service of the human person.

POPE JOHN PAUL II
APOSTOLIC LETTER
ISSUED MOTU PROPRIO
PROCLAIMING
SAINT BRIDGET OF SWEDEN
SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA AND
SAINT TERESA BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS
CO-PATRONESSES OF EUROPE

HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II
FOR PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE

1. The hope of building a more just world, a world more worthy of the human person, stirred by the expectation of the impending Third Millennium, must be coupled with an awareness that human efforts are of no avail if not accompanied by divine grace: “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labour in vain” (Ps 127:1). This must also be a consideration for those who in these years are seeking to give Europe a new configuration which would help the Continent to learn from the richness of her history and to eliminate the baneful inheritances of the past, so as to respond to the challenges of a changing world with an originality rooted in her best traditions.

APOSTOLIC LETTER
INTER MUNERA ACADEMIARUM

JOHN PAUL II 
FOR PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE

1. AMONG THE TASKS OF THE ACADEMIES founded over the centuries by the Roman Pontiffs, research in philosophy and theology holds pride of place.

HIS HOLINESS
POPE JOHN PAUL II
APOSTOLIC LETTER
ISSUED “MOTU PROPRIO”

APOSTOLOS SUOS

ON THE THEOLOGICAL
AND JURIDICAL NATURE
OF EPISCOPAL CONFERENCES (1)

I

INTRODUCTION

1. The Lord Jesus constituted the Apostles “in the form of a college or permanent assembly, at the head of which he placed Peter, chosen from amongst them”.(2) The Apostles were not chosen and sent by Jesus independently of one another, but rather as part of the group of the Twelve, as the Gospels make clear by the repeatedly used expression, “one of the Twelve”.(3) To all of them together the Lord entrusted the mission of preaching the Kingdom of God,(4) and they were sent by him, not individually, but two by two.(5) At the Last Supper Jesus prayed to the Father for the unity of the Apostles and of those who through their word would believe in him.(6) After his Resurrection and before the Ascension, the Lord reconfirmed Peter in the supreme pastoral office (7) and entrusted to the Apostles the same mission which he had himself received from the Father.(8)

JOHN PAUL II

Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio
AD TUENDAM FIDEM,
by which certain norms are inserted
into the Code of Canon Law
and into the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches

TO PROTECT THE FAITH of the Catholic Church against errors arising from certain members of the Christian faithful, especially from among those dedicated to the various disciplines of sacred theology, we, whose principal duty is to confirm the brethren in the faith (Lk 22:32), consider it absolutely necessary to add to the existing texts of the Code of Canon Law and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, new norms which expressly impose the obligation of upholding truths proposed in a definitive way by the Magisterium of the Church, and which also establish related canonical sanctions.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

1. Yesterday I went to Annifo, Cesi and Assisi to visit the peoples of Umbria and the Marches who are still suffering from the consequences of the earthquake, now aggravated by the winter season. At the beginning of the New Year, I wanted to meet these brothers and sisters of ours, so harshly tried, in order to share their pain and their hopes. I thank everyone who helped me during this short Pastoral Visit: from the civil, administrative, military and religious authorities and volunteer workers, to everyone who was involved in facilitating all my movements and my meeting with the people. Above all, my cordial thanks to the earthquake victims for their warm welcome. I keep their faces in my heart and continue to entrust them to the Lord in my prayer.