Fides et Ratio Catholica: The Relationship of Faith and Reason in the Roman Catholic Church in Pope John Paul II and Later

Fides et Ratio, published by Pope John Paul II in 1998, has an important place in the Church tradition because it summarizes the perspective of the Catholic Church tradition regarding the relationship of faith-reason in the historical process. In addition, another aspect that makes the circular privileged is that the reason-belief relationship was not dealt with in such a comprehensive way later. In the context of the constitution named Fides et Ratio, this article tries to reveal the Catholic Church's views on the relationship between faith and reason. For this purpose, based on Fides et Ratio, it discusses the views of Pope John Paul II and his successors Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis on the subject. In his circular, Pope John Paul II emphasizes that the truths reached by reason and faith, in general, do not contradict each other and that these two sources of information should support each other. Given that they both depend on each other, John Paul's call to establish a correct relationship between philosophy and theology seems to continue by the later popes.