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

Three Vatican dicasteries cited a 2006 speech by Pope Benedict XVI in a note celebrating the 60th anniversary of the declaration Nostra aetate. The note references the address given at the University of Ratisbona on September 12, 2006, but does not use the name Ratisbona in the text.

In section 24 of the note, the dicasteries state that continuing interreligious dialogue demonstrates that fundamentalism is a falsification of religions. The text refers to a well-known speech where the pope used the words of an emperor to argue that spreading faith through violence is irrational and contradicts the nature of God and the soul.

The note includes this reference in its critical apparatus under the official title of the event, "Discurso con motivo del encuentro con los representantes del mundo científico (12 septiembre 2006)". While the note includes the conclusion regarding violence, it does not reproduce the specific quote that caused international controversy during the original 2006 speech.