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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]], [[Master of the Sacred Palace|Theologian emeritus of the Pontifical Household]] and Cardinal-Deacon of ''[[Santi Domenico e Sisto]]'' the University Church of the [[Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas]]<ref>https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/2003/documents/ns_lit_doc_20031021_titoli-diaconie-cardinali_en.html Accessed 17 February 2013; {{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_cottier_gjmm_en.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=February 18, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130214071240/https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_cottier_gjmm_en.html |archivedate=February 14, 2013 }} Accessed 17 February 2013</ref> waswere influential in drafting the encyclical,<ref>In an interview in "30Days", 3-2004 Cottier remarked:"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… also the Catechism of the Catholic Church" http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_3545_l3.htm Accessed 17 February 2013</ref> 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>