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'''''Veritatis splendor''''' ([[Latin]]: ''The Splendor of the Truth'') is an [[encyclical]] by [[Pope John Paul II]]. It expresses the position of the [[Catholicism|Catholic Church]] regarding fundamentals of the Church's role in moral teaching. The encyclical is one of the most comprehensive and philosophical teachings of moral theology in the Catholic tradition. It was [[Promulgation|promulgated]] on 6 August 1993. Cardinal [[Georges Cottier]] was influential in drafting the encyclical,<ref name=cottier>{{cite news | work= 30Days | date= March 2004 | url = http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_3545_l3.htm | title = «"If everything is grace, then grace is no more»" | access-date = 17 February 2013}}</ref>{{efn|In an interview in ''30Days'', Cottier said: "Going back to the early years, the first "big" text I worked on was the social encyclical ''Centesimus annus''. And then the ''Ut unum sint'' on ecumenicalism, the moral encyclical ''Veritatis splendor'', and the ''Fides et ratio''.<ref name=cottier/>}} as was [[Servais-Théodore Pinckaers]], a professor of moral theology at the [[University of Fribourg]].<ref>See: Romanus Cessario, "On the Place of Servais Pinckaers († 7 April 2008) in the Renewal of Catholic Theology," in: ''The Thomist,'' 73.1 (2009), 1-27.</ref>