{"id":17145,"date":"2025-11-25T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/?p=17145"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:34:47","slug":"pope-issues-apostolic-letter-on-creed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/pope-issues-apostolic-letter-on-creed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Issues Apostolic Letter on Creed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>VATICAN CITY (CNS) \u2014 When Christians recite the Creed, it should prompt an examination of conscience about what they genuinely believe and what kind of example of faith in God they give to others, Pope Leo XIV wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWars have been fought, and people have been killed, persecuted and discriminated against in the name of God,\u201d he wrote. \u201cInstead of proclaiming a merciful God, a vengeful God has been presented who instills terror and punishes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publishing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/apost_letters\/documents\/20251123-in-unitate-fidei.html\">In Unitate Fidei<\/a>\u201d (\u201cIn the Unity of Faith\u201d) on 23 November, Pope Leo marked the 1,700th anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/magazine\/nicaea-and-the-evolution-of-ecumenism\/\">Council of Nicaea<\/a> and its Creed. He said he wanted it released in anticipation of his visit to Turkey 27-30 November to celebrate with Orthodox and Protestant leaders the anniversary of the Creed Christians share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bishops who had gathered in Nicaea in 325 had survived anti-Christian persecution, the pope said, but were facing the fracturing of their communities over disputes regarding \u201cthe essence of the Christian faith, namely the answer to the decisive question that Jesus had asked his disciples at Caesarea Philippi: \u2018Who do you say that I am?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cArius, a priest from Alexandria in Egypt, taught that Jesus was not truly the Son of God,\u201d the pope explained. Arius taught that \u201cthough more than a mere creature,\u201d Jesus was \u201can intermediate being between the inaccessible God and humanity. Moreover, there would have been a time when the Son \u2018did not exist.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251123T0915-POPE-UNITATE-FIDEI-18083161-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Leo reading a letter, a hand is seen holding a microphone.\" class=\"wp-image-17147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251123T0915-POPE-UNITATE-FIDEI-18083161-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251123T0915-POPE-UNITATE-FIDEI-18083161-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251123T0915-POPE-UNITATE-FIDEI-18083161-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251123T0915-POPE-UNITATE-FIDEI-18083161-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251123T0915-POPE-UNITATE-FIDEI-18083161-1600x1066.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251123T0915-POPE-UNITATE-FIDEI-18083161.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pope Leo XIV speaks to pilgrims attending Mass for the Jubilee of Choirs and the feast of Christ the King on 23 November in St. Peter&#8217;s Square at the Vatican. At the end of Mass, the pope announced the release of his apostolic letter, &#8220;In Unitate Fidei,&#8221; (&#8220;In the Unity of Faith&#8221;) on the Creed and the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. (photo: CNS\/Vatican Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge facing the bishops, he said, was to affirm their faith in one God while making it clear that, as the Creed now says, Jesus is \u201cthe Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages &#8230; true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bishops, he said, knew \u201cno mortal being can, in fact, defeat death and save us; only God can do so. He has freed us through his Son made man, so that we might be free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In affirming monotheism and the true humanity and divinity of Christ, the pope said, \u201cthey wanted to reaffirm that the one true God is not inaccessibly distant from us, but on the contrary has drawn near and has come to encounter us in Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-this-is-the-heart-of-our-christian-life-pope-leo-wrote-for-this-reason-we-commit-to-follow-jesus-as-our-master-companion-brother-and-friend\">\u201cThis is the heart of our Christian life,\u201d Pope Leo wrote. \u201cFor this reason, we commit to follow Jesus as our master, companion, brother and friend.\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The version of the Creed recited by most Catholics at Mass each Sunday and shared with other mainline Christians is formally called the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, because it includes an article of faith about the Holy Spirit inserted by the bishops at the First Council of Constantinople in 381.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Western Christians say: \u201cI believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A footnote in the pope\u2019s letter said that the phrase known as the \u201cfilioque\u201d \u2014 and proceeds from the Father and the Son \u2014 \u201cis not found in the text of Constantinople; it was inserted into the Latin Creed by Pope Benedict VIII in 1014 and is a subject of Orthodox-Catholic dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent popes, including Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis and Pope Leo, have omitted the phrase at ecumenical prayer services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his letter, Pope Leo affirmed the Catholic Church\u2019s commitment to the search for Christian unity and said, \u201cThe Nicene Creed can be the basis and reference point for this journey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he prayed that the Holy Spirit would come to all Christians \u201cto revive our faith, to enkindle us with hope, to inflame us with charity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Nicene Creed does not depict a distant, inaccessible and immovable God who rests in himself, but a God who is close to us and accompanies us on our journey in the world, even in the darkest places on earth,\u201d Pope Leo wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reciting the Creed, he said, should prompt Christians to \u201cexamine our conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The questions they should ask, he wrote, include: \u201cWhat does God mean to me and how do I bear witness to my faith in him? Is the one and only God truly the Lord of my life, or do I have idols that I place before God and his commandments? Is God for me the living God, close to me in every situation, the Father to whom I turn with filial trust?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, he continued with more questions: \u201cIs he the Creator to whom I owe everything I am and have, whose mark I can find in every creature? Am I willing to share the goods of the earth, which belong to everyone, in a just and equitable manner? How do I treat creation, the work of his hands? Do I exploit and destroy it, or do I use it with reverence and gratitude, caring for and cultivating it as the common home of humanity?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Believing that God became human in Jesus means \u201cthat we now encounter the Lord in our brothers and sisters in need,\u201d the pope said. 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