CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH DOCUMENTS Documents on sacramental questions
Note: The documents regarding the sacraments issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are presented in chronological order. Each text is given with its title in Italian or English, followed by the official title (usually in Latin) in parentheses, and the date of publication.
The next line, in bold typeface, provides references to official collections and editions (for example, Acta Apostolicae Sedis) and the final line gives references to unofficial collections and editions in various languages.
List of abbreviations
- Baptism
- Response to a ‘Dubium’ on the validity of Baptism conferred by «The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints», called «Mormons»
(Responsum ad propositum dubium de validitate baptismatis apud communitatem «The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints»), June 5, 2001 AAS 93 (2001) 476 OR16-17.07.2001; Communicationes 33 (2001) 162; RegnoDoc 17/2001, 542-544 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Notification on the validity of Baptism conferred in the «The New Church»
(Notificatio de validitate baptismatis apud «The New Church» confessionem collati), November 20, 1992 AAS 85 (1993) 179 Communicationes 25 (1993) 34; EV 13, 1068-1069; LE 5490; Dokumenty, II, 26 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Instruction on Infant Baptism – Pastoralis actio
(Instructio de baptismo parvulorum), October 20, 1980 AAS 72 (1980) 1137-1156; DOCUMENTA 42 OR 22.11.1980, 1-2; Notitiae 17 (1981) 7-22; Communicationes 8 (1981) 26-41; CEE 165-201 [Lat./Hisp.]; DocCath 77 (1980) 1107-1113 [Gall.]; EV 7, 568-603; LE 4801; Dokumenty, I, 42 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Risposta al Vescovo di Dapaong riguardante l’amministrazione del battesimo ai figli di genitori non cattolici, July 13, 1970
Notitiae 7 (1971) 69-70;DocCath 68 (1971) 158; LE 3884
- Eucharist
- Circular Letter to all Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences concerning the use of low-gluten altar breads and mustum as matter for the celebration of the Eucharist, June 19, 1995
Notitiae 31 (1995) 608-610; Notiziario CEI 16 (1995) 280s; EV 14, 1694-1696; LE 5609 [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
- The reception of the holy communion by the divorced and remarried members of the faithful (1994) – Annus Internationalis Familiae
(Epistola ad Catholicae Ecclesiae Episcopos de receptione communionis eucharisticae a fidelibus qui post divortium novas inierunt nuptias), September 14, 1994 AAS 86 (1994) 974-979 OR 15.10.1994; Communicationes 26 (1994) 163-168;CivCat 145 (1994) 4, 271-275; DocCath 91 (1994) 930-932; LE 5579; Dokumenty, II, 33 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Letter to Bishops of the Catholic Church on Certain Questions Concerning the Minister of the Eucharist - Sacerdotium ministeriale
(Epistola ad Ecclesiae Catholicae Episcopos de quibusdam quaestionibus ad Eucharistiae ministrum spectantibus), August 6, 1983 AAS 75 (1983) 1001-1009; DOCUMENTA 52 OR 9.9.1983, 4 [Ital.]; Communicationes 15 (1983) 153-159; DocCath 80 (1983) 885-887 [Gall.]; EV 9, 346-361; LE 4993; Dokumenty, II, 7 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Responses regarding the Eucharistic communication of the celebrant “by intinction” and of the faithful only under the species of wine
(Responsa ad proposita dubia de celebrantis communione «per intinctionem» et fidelium communione sub sola specie vini), October 29, 1982 AAS 74 (1982) 1298-1299; DOCUMENTA 48 LE 4932; Dokumenty, II, 3 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Lettera al Segretario della S. Congregazione per i religiosi e gli istituti secolari circa il Dicastero competente per la concessione di indulti per poter celebrare la Messa con mosto di vino in casi speciali, September 22, 1981
Commentarium pro religiosis 63 (1982) 167-168; EV S1, 760-762; LE 4863 [Italian]
- Risposta al Presidente della Conferenza episcopale degli Stati Uniti di America circa la disciplina dell’uso del vino da parte di sacerdoti alcolizzati, December 15, 1980
CanLDigest vol. 9, 583-585; LE 4819
- Risposta al Presidente della Conferenza episcopale degli Stati Uniti di America riguardante la natura e le qualità della materia per il pane eucaristico, June 4, 1979
CanLDigest vol. 9, 578-580; LE 4716
- Declaration Cum de fragmentis On Particles of the Consecrated Hosts
(Declaratio de fragmentis eucharisticis), May 2, 1972 DOCUMENTA 11 Notitiae 8 (1972) 227; DocCath 69 (1972) 815-816 [Gall.]; EV 4, 1022-1023; Dokumenty, I,11 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Facultas datur addendi certam succheri quantitatem ad vinum pro Sacrificio Missae firmis reddendum, May 31, 1967
LE 3564; The Clergy Monthly 31 (1967) 309 [English]
- Penance
- Decree regarding the excommunication of those who divulge confessions (Decretum de sacramenti Paenitentiae dignitate tuenda), September 23, 1988
AAS 80 (1988) 1367 Communicationes 21 (1989) 112; DocCath 86 (1989) 214 [Gall.]; EV 11, 844-845; LE 5293; Dokumenty, II, 20 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- A question about general absolution
(Responsum ad quaesitum circa absolutionem sacramentalem generali modo impertiendam), January 20, 1978 DOCUMENTA 32 Notitiae 14 (1978) 6-7; DocCath 75 (1978) 205 [Gall.]; LE 4555; Dokumenty, I, 32 [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Lettera al Presidente della Conferenza episcopale degli Stati Uniti di America circa le condizioni e le norme dell’assoluzione sacramentale «comunitaria», January 14, 1977
DocCath 74 (1977) 297;LE 4487; Origins 6 (1977) 595-596
- Declaration concerning the safeguard of the Sacrament of Penance – Sacra congregatio
(Declaratio de tuenda Sacramenti Paenitentiae dignitate), March 23, 1973 AAS 65 (1973) 678; DOCUMENTA 14 OR 24.3.1974, 1 [Ital.]; DocCath 70 (1973) 365 [Gall.]; EV 4, 1502-1503; LE 4181; Dokumenty, I, 14 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portugiesisch, Spanish]
- Pastoral Norms for the administration of general sacramental absolution – Sacramentum paenitentiae
(Normaepastorales circa absolutionem sacramentalem generali modo impertiendam), June 16, 1972 AAS 64 (1972) 510-514; DOCUMENTA 12 OR 14.7.1972, 1-2 [Lat./Ital.]; Notitiae 8 (1972) 312-317; Communicationes 4 (1972) 100-105; DocCath 69 (1972) 713-715 [Gall.]; EV 4, 1042-1053; LE 4060; Dokumenty, I, 12 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Risposta riguardante l’obbligo di premettere la confessione sacramentale prima della sacra comunione quando c’è la coscienza del peccato grave, July 11, 1968
DocCath 66 (1969) 349; LE 3674
- Sacred orders
- General Decree regarding the delict of attempted sacred ordination of a woman (December 19, 2007)
Decretum generale – De delicto attentatae sacrae ordinationis mulieris AAS 100 (2008) 403 OR 30.5.2008, Notitiae 44 (2008) 135 [Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
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Decreto che respinge il ricorso di alcune donne scomunicate, 21 dicembre 2002 Recursus quarundam excommunicatarum mulierum reicitur AAS 95 (2003), 271-273; DOCUMENTA 101 Communicationes 35 (2003) 56-59; Origins 32 (2003) 566-567 [French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
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Decree of Excommunication [regarding the attempted priestly ordination of some Catholic women by a schismatic Bishop], 5 August 2002 DOCUMENTA 99 OR 5-6.08.2002, 5 [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Responsum ad propositum dubium concerning the teaching contained in “Ordinatio Sacerdotalis”
(Responsum ad dubium circa doctrinam in Epist. Ap.“Ordinatio Sacerdotalis” traditam), October 28, 1995 AAS 87 (1995) 1114 OR 19.11.1995, 2; Notitiae 31 (1995) 610s; Communicationes 27 (1995) 212; EV 14, 1958-1961; LE 5622; Doc. Cath. 92 (1995) 1079-1081 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Procedural Norms regarding the dispensation of priests from celibacy
(Normae de dispensatione a sacerdotali coelibatu ad instantiam partis), October 14, 1980 AAS 72 (1980) 1136-1137; DOCUMENTA 41 EV 7, 562-567; LE 4800; Dokumenty, I, 41 [German, English, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Letter to all local Ordinaries and General Moderators of clerical religious communities regarding the dispensation of priests from celibacy
(Litterae circulares omnibus locorum Ordinariis et Moderatoribus generalibus religionum clericaliumde dispensatione a sacerdotali coelibatu), October 14, 1980 AAS 72 (1980) 1132-1135; DOCUMENTA 40 Communicationes 8 (1981) 21-26; DocCath 77 (1980) 1177-1178 [Gall.]; EV 7, 550-561; LE 4800; Dokumenty, I, 40 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Declaration on the Question of Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood – Inter insigniores
(Declaratio circa quaestionem admissionis mulierum ad sacerdotium ministeriale), October 15, 1976 AAS 69 (1977) 98-116; DOCUMENTA 30 OR 28.1.1977, 1-3 [Lat./Ital.]; Notitiae 13 (1977) 51-66; Communicationes 9 (1977) 36-50; CEE 97-131 [Lat./Hisp.]; DocCath 74 (1977) 158-164; EV 5, 1392-1423; LE 4471; Dokumenty, I, 30 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Declaration concerning the interpretation of the Norms regarding petitions for reducing priests to the lay state
(Declaratio quoad interpretationem quarundam dispositionum, quae Normis, die XIII Ianuarii 1971 editis, statutae sunt), June 26, 1972 AAS 64 (1972) 641-643; DOCUMENTA 13 Communicationes 5 (1973) 21-23; DocCath 70 (1973) 16-17 [Gall.]; LE 4067; Dokumenty, I, 13 [English, French, Italian, Latin, Polish, Spanish]
- Risposta a un dubbio circa l’imposizione delle mani da parte di più vescovi nell’ordinazione sacerdotale, May 16, 1972
Notitiae 16 (1980) 272; LE 4641 [Latin]
- Norms for preparing petitions in diocesan or clerical religious Curias for reducing priests to the lay state with a dispensation from all the obligations arising from Sacred Orders
(Normae ad apparandas in Curiis dioecesanis et religiosis causas reductionis ad statum laicalem cum dispensatione ab obligationibus cum sacra Ordinatione conexis), January 13, 1971 AAS 63 (1971) 303-308; DOCUMENTA 8 Communicationes 3 (1971) 138-144; DocCath 68 (1971) 764-768; EV 4, 62-81; LE 3947; Dokumenty, I, 8 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Letter to Bishops and General Superiors regarding the reduction to the lay state
(Litterae circulares omnibus locorum Ordinariis et Moderatoribus generalibus religionum clericalium de reductione ad statum laicalem), January 13, 1971 AAS 63 (1971) 309-312; DOCUMENTA 7 Communicationes 3 (1971) 144-147; EV 4, 54-62; LE 3946; Dokumenty, I, 7 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Matrimony
- Norms on the preparation of the process for the dissolution of the marriage bond in favour of the faith
(Normae de conficiendo processu pro solutione vinculi matrimonialis in favorem fidei), 30 aprile 2001 Typis Vaticanis, 2001 [Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Summarium (cf. art. 25 § 1 Normae)
[English, French, German, Italian, Spanish]
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Summarium - attachment [English, French, German, Italian, Spanish]
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Cautiones (cf. art. 5 Normae) [English, French, German, Italian, Spanish]
- Decree regarding cases in which impotence renders marriage null
(Decretum circa impotentiam quae matrimonium dirimit), May 13, 1977 AAS 69 (1977) 426; DOCUMENTA 31 Communicationes 9 (1977) 222; DocCath 74 (1977) 809; LE 4515; Dokumenty, I, 31 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish]
- Norms for the procedure for the dissolution of marriage in favor of the faith
(Normae procedurales pro conficiendo processu dissolutionis vinculi matrimonialis in favorem fidei), December 6, 1973 DOCUMENTA 20 EV 4, 1791-1799; LE 4244; Dokumenty, I, 20 [English, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Instruction on the dissolution of marriage in favor of the faith – Ut notum est
(Instructio pro solutione matrimonii in favorem fidei), December 6, 1973 DOCUMENTA 19 EV 4, 1786-1791; LE 4244; Dokumenty, I, 19 [English, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Letter regarding the indissolubility of marriage
(Litterae circulares de indissolubilitate matrimonii et de admissione ad Sacramenta fidelium qui in unione irregolari vivunt), April 11, 1973 DOCUMENTA 15 DocCath 70 (1983) 707 [Gall.];EV 4, 1508-1511;LE 4187; Dokumenty, I, 15 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
- Instruction on mixed marriages – Matrimonii sacramentum
(Instructio de matrimonii mixtis), March 18, 1966 AAS 58 (1966) 235-239; DOCUMENTA 1 OR 19.3.1966, 1-2 [Lat./It.]; DocCath 63 (1966) 577-584 [Gall.]; LE 3422; Dokumenty, I, 1 [English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
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