Lumen Fidei – The Light of Faith

Description

Lumen Fidei, the first Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis, comes towards the end of the Year of Faith and issues an urgent call to all the faithful ‘to see once again that faith is a light, for once the flame of faith dies out, all other lights begin to dim’ (Lumen Fidei 4).

This encyclical, begun by Pope Benedict XVI and completed by Pope Francis, concludes the trilogy of letters on the three theological virtues begun by Pope Benedict