The seat of the papacy, built around St Peter’s Basilica on the Vatican Hill, where tradition places Peter’s burial. Modern Catholic statements in this archive, from the Second Vatican Council’s Nostra aetate (1965) to the Catechism and the documents of 2024, were issued here; the Catholic–Assyrian Christological declaration was signed here in 1994.
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19921992 (definitive Latin edition 1997)
Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 464–469: True God and True Man
Catholic Church
The Catholic Catechism’s short statement that Jesus Christ is one divine person, ‘true God and true man’, in two natures, as defined by the councils from Nicaea to Chalcedon. A statement of faith, not historical evidence.
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202424 October 2024
Dilexit nos: Pope Francis on the Heart of Jesus
Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s 2024 encyclical on the human and divine love of the Heart of Jesus (the Sacred Heart), drawing on scripture, the Fathers and the visions of Margaret Mary Alacoque. Evidence of present-day teaching, not of first-century events.
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202417 May 2024
Norms for Discerning Alleged Supernatural Phenomena
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
The Vatican’s 2024 procedure for judging reported apparitions, visions and similar claims, many concerning Jesus or Mary. It sets graded conclusions instead of a yes-or-no verdict, and does not rule on any particular event.
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196528 October 1965
Nostra aetate: The Church and Non-Christian Religions
Second Vatican Council
Vatican II’s declaration on other religions. It notes that Muslims revere Jesus as a prophet and honour Mary, and states that Christ’s passion cannot be charged against all Jews then living or Jews today. A modern reception, not historical evidence.
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199411 November 1994
Common Christological Declaration of the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East (1994)
Pope John Paul II and Mar Dinkha IV
A joint statement in which the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East confess together that Christ is truly God and truly man, united in one person, ending a dispute over wording that went back to the Council of Ephesus in 431.
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8 writings- AD 170Tatian’s DiatessaronThe Other Gospels1×
- 1965Nostra aetate: The Church and Non-Christian ReligionsOther Voices2×
- 1992Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 464–469: True God and True ManOther Voices1×
- 1994Common Christological Declaration of the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East (1994)Other Voices1×
- 2024Dilexit nos: Pope Francis on the Heart of JesusOther Voices1×
- 2024Norms for Discerning Alleged Supernatural PhenomenaOther Voices1×
- 2026From medieval devotion to the presentThe Dossier2×
- 2026Sources and further readingThe Dossier2×