The Pope is releasing on Friday his first encyclical letter written on faith.
Pope Francis received from Pope Benedict the draft of a document for the Year of the Faith and decided to complete it.
The Encyclical Lumen Fidei, the Light of Faith, is an important tool to celebrate the Year of the Faith.
The new Encyclical completes a trilogy on the theological virtues started by Pope Benedict who wrote Deus Caritas Est – God is Love and Spes Salvi – Saved by Hope.
Lumen Fidei is the first Encyclical co-written by two popes.
It can be downloaded later on the day from vatican.va, the site of the Holy See.
In August, Pope Francis should issue a pastoral exhortation on the theme of New Evangelization.
An encyclical is an open letter of the Pope to the Church on a concrete theme that gets its name from the two opening words in Latin like most Church documents.