Encyclical
Letter FIDES ET RATIO of the Supreme Pontiff
John Paul II
To the Bishops of the Catholic Church On the Relantionship between
Faith and Reason
My Venerable Brother Bishops,
Health and the Apostolic Blessing!
Faith
and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the
contemplation of truth; and God has kplaced in the human heart a desire
to know the truth - in a word, to know himself - so that, by knowing
and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth
about themselves.