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Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian (Donum veritatis) is unavailable, but you can change that!

For nearly 500 years, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has defended the Catholic Church from internal heresy—whether by false teaching or malpractice of faith. It is the oldest of the Curia’s nine congregations, and is made up of cardinals, bishops, priests, lay theologians, and canon lawyers. According to Pope Paul VI’s 1965 Motu Proprio Integrae Servandae, “All questions...

The truth possesses in itself a unifying force. It frees men from isolation and the oppositions in which they have been trapped by ignorance of the truth. And as it opens the way to God, it, at the same time, unites them to each other. Christ destroyed the wall of separation which had kept them strangers to God’s promise and to the fellowship of the covenant (cf. Eph 2:12–14). Into the hearts of the faithful He sends His Spirit through whom we become nothing less than “one” in Him (cf. Rom 5:5; 6