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List of Encyclicals of Pope John Paul II

This article contains a list of Encyclicals of Pope John Paul II. During his reign, Pope John Paul II had issued 14 Encyclicals:

No.	Title (Latin)	Title (English translation)	Subject	Date
1.	Redemptor Hominis	"The Redeemer of Man"		March 4 1979
2.	Dives in Misericordia	"The Father of Mercies and God of all Comfort"		November 30 1980
3.	Laborem Exercens	"On Human Work"	The 90th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum	September 14 1981
4.	Slavorum Apostoli	"The Apostles of the Slavs"	In commemoration of Saints Cyril and Methodius	June 2 1985
5.	Dominum et Vivificantem	"The Lord and Giver of Life"		May 18 1986
6.	Redemptoris Mater	"Mother of the Redeemer"		March 25 1987
7.	Sollicitudo Rei Socialis	"On Social Concerns"		December 30 1987
8.	Redemptoris Missio	"On the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate"		December 7 1990
9.	Centesimus Annus	"The Hundredth Year"	On the 100th anniversary of Rerum Novarum; on Capital and Labor; and on Catholic social teaching	May 1 1991
10.	Veritatis Splendor	"The Splendor of Truth"	Regarding Certain Fundamental Question of the Church's Moral Teaching	August 6 1993
11.	Evangelium Vitae	"The Gospel of Life"	"On the Value and Inviolability of Human Life"	March 25 1995
12.	Ut Unum Sint	"That They May Be One"	On Commitment to Ecumenism	May 25 1995
13.	Fides et Ratio	"Faith and Reason"	Condemned both atheism and faith unsupported by reason, and affirmed the place of reason and philosophy in religion	September 14 1998
14.	Ecclesia de Eucharistia	"The Church of the Eucharist"		April 17 2003

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