Papal documents

The 1968 Scientists’ Statement on Birth Control Encyclical

February 11, 2026

July 2023 marked the 55th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s promulgation of Humanae Vitae. The 1968 encyclical, which reaffirmed the […]

October 6, 2020

An ongoing project of mine is analyzing papal documents by word count, paragraph count, and citation sources. Given the traction

April 24, 2019

This is an ongoing project that looks at papal documents, what they cite, and how long they are. I used