Three Vatican dicasteries cite Benedict XVI's Ratisbona speech in a note on Nostra aetate

Three Vatican dicasteries cited a 2006 speech by Benedict XVI in a note celebrating the 60th anniversary of the declaration Nostra aetate. The note references the speech in its 24th section but does not explicitly name the Regensburg location or include the specific phrase that caused international controversy with the Islamic world in 2006.

The document uses the official title of the event, "Speech on the occasion of the meeting with representatives of the scientific world," in its critical apparatus. The text states that in a well-known speech, the former pope argued that spreading faith through violence is irrational and contradicts the nature of God and the soul. The note uses this reference to suggest that persistent interreligious dialogue demonstrates that fundamentalism is a falsification of religion.