Documents and Publications

Pontifical Council for Culture

• The Via Pulchritudinis, Privileged Pathway for Evangelisation and Dialogue Concluding Document of the Plenary Assembly, 2006
  [English, French, Italian, Spanish]

• Where is Your God? Responding to the Challenge of Unbelief and Religious Indifference Today
  Concluding Document of the Plenary Assembly, 2004
  [English, French, Italian, Spanish]

• Document Jesus Christ the Bearer of the Water of Life. A Christian Reflection on the "New Age"
  [English, French, Italian, Spanish]

  • Presentation of the Document Jesus Christ the Bearer of the Water of Life. A Christian Reflection on the "New Age"
    [English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Towards a Pastoral approach to Culture (1999)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• The presence of the Church in the University (1994)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

Cultural Heritage of the Church

• Inventory of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life Cultural Patrimony: Some Practical Orientations (September 15, 2006)
  [English, French, Italian, Spanish]

• Pastoral Function of the Ecclesiastical Museums (August 15, 2001)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Necessity and Urgency of Inventory and Cataloguing of the Cultural Heritage of the Church (December 8, 1999)
  [Italian]

• The Pastoral Formation of Church Archives (February 2, 1997)
  [English, French, Italian]

• The Cultural Heritage of the Church and Religious Families (April 10, 1994)
  [English, French]

• The Ecclesiastical Libraries in the Mission of the Church (March 19, 1994)
  [English, Italian]

• Circular letter regarding the cultural and pastoral training of future priests in their upcoming responsibilities concerning the artistic and historic heritage of the Church (October 15, 1992)
  [English, Italian]