II Vatican Council

• Decree on the adaptation and renewal of religious life Perfectae caritatis, 28.10.1965
• Decree on priestly training, Optatam totius, 28.10.1965

Code of Canon Law (1983)

• Canon 641-661, the admission of candidates and the formation of members

Paul VI

• Apostolic letter Summi Dei Verbum, 04.11.1963
• Encyclical letter, Sacerdotalis caelibatus, 24.06.1967 

John Paul II

• Message to participants in the 14th General Assembly of the Conference of religious people of Brazil, 11.07.1986
• Post-synodal apostolic exhortation Pastores dabo vobis, 25.03.1992
• Post-synodal apostolic exhortation Vita consecrata, 25.03.1996
• Message Santificati in Cristo, 21.09.2001
• Apostolic constitution Sapientia christiana, 15.04.1979
• Letter In this extraordinary holy year, 03.04.1983
• Letter Veni, creator, 12.04.1990
• Letter to priests for Holy Thursday, 10.03.1991
• Letter Ego sum vitis, 29.03.1992
• Letter Onore a Maria, 25.03.1995
• Message for the XXXIV world day of prayer for vocations , la vocazione alla santità, 08.09.2001
• Letter Con animo commosso, 17.03.2002
• Letter In occasione del Congresso, 12.04.2002
• Enciclica, Ecclesia de Eucaristia, 17.04.2003
• Letter Con gioia, 28.03.2004

Benedict XVI

• Post-synodal apostolic exhortation Sacramentum caritatis, 22.02.2007
• Address to members of the council for relations between the congregation for institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life and the men's and women's international unions of superiors general, (18.02.2008)
• Address to participants in the conference organized by the congregation for the clergy, 12.03.2010
• Message for the 47th world day of prayer for vocations, 25.04.2010
• Conclusion of the year for priests vigil on the occasion of the international meeting of priests, 10.06.2010
• Meeting with bishops, priests, men and women religious and seminarians. Pastoral visit to Palermo, 03.10.2010
• Letter to seminarians, 18.10.2010
• Address to the bishops of the episcopal conference of Brazil (South II Region) on their "ad limina" visit, 05.11.2010
• Address to the international union of superiors general, 26.11.2010

Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

• Document, Religious and human promotion, 25.04.1978
• Directives for the mutual relations between bishops and religious in the church, Mutuae relationes, 14.05.1978
• The contemplative dimension of religious life, 07.03.1980
• Eessential elements in the church's teaching on religious life as applied to institutes dedicated to works of the apostolate, 31.05.1983.
• Directives on formation in religious institutes, 02.02.1990.
• Fraternal life in community, Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor, 02.02.1994
• Final Document of the Congress on Vocations to the Priesthood and to Consecrated Life in Europea, New vocations for a new europe, 08.12.1997
• Inter-institute collaboration for formation, 8.12.1998
• Starting afresh from Christ: a renewed commitment to consecrated life in the third millennium, 19.05.2002

Congregation for Catholic Education

• The Study of Philosophy in Seminaries, 20.01.1972.
• A Guide to Formation in Priestly Celibacy, 11.04.1974.
• Instruction on Liturgical Formation in Seminaries, 03.06.1979
• Circular Letter Concerning Some of the More Urgent Aspects of Spiritual Formation in Seminaries, 6.01.1980
• Ratio fundamentalis institutionis sacerdotalis, 19.03.1985
• Pastoral Care of People on the Move in the Formation of Future Priests, 25.01.1986
• The Virgin Mary in the intellectual and spiritual formation, 25.03.1988
• Instruction on the Study of the Fathers of the Church in the Formation of Priests, 10.11.1989
• Directives Tra i vari mezzi, 4.11.1993
• Basic norms for the formation of permanent deacons - Directory for the ministry and life of permanent deacons, 22.02.1998
• Documento informativo Di fronte alla necessità sul periodo propedeutico nella formazione dei seminaristi, 1.05.1998
• Decree for the Faculty of Canon Law, 02.09.2002
• Instruction concerning the criteria for the discernment of vocations with regard to persons with homosexual tendencies in view of their admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders, 04.11.2005
• Educating Together in Catholic Schools. A Shared Mission between Consecrated Persons and the Lay Faithful, 08.09.2007
• "Reform of the Higher Institutes of Religious Sciences", 28.06.2008
• "Guidelines for the Use of Psychology in the Admission and Formation of Candidates for the Priesthood", 29.06.2008

Congregation for the Clergy

• Istruzione sulla formazione permanente del clero, Inter ea, 04.11.1969
• Directory on the Ministry and Life of Priests, 31.01.1994
• The Priest and the Third Christian Millenium, 19.03.1999

Pontificium Consilium ad christianorum unitatem fovendam 

• The Ecumenical Dimension in the Formation of Those Engaged in Pastoral Work, 01.12.1997