1990

• Message for the 23rd World Day of Peace (January 1, 1990)

• Address to the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture (January 12, 1990)

• Address to the Tribunal of the Roman Rota (January 18, 1990)

• Message for the 24^th World Communications Day (January 24, 1990)

• Pastoral Visit to Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad (25 January-1 February 1990)

• Message for the World Day for Vocations (1990)

• Address to the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (March 15, 1990)

• Exchange of official representatives at the level of the apostolic nuncio and special ambassador between the Holy See and the Soviet government (March 15, 1990)

• Message for the 5^th World Youth Day, 1990

• Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday (April 12, 1990)

• Chrism Mass (April 12, 1990)

• Pastoral Visit to Czechoslovakia (21-22 April 1990)

• Pastoral Visit to Mexico and Curaçao (6-14 May 1990)

• Address to the 8th Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Family (May 17, 1990)

• Pastoral Visit to Malta (25-27 May 1990)

• Message for the World Day for Missions (June 3, 1990)

• Apostolic Letter for the Fifth Centenary of the Evangelization of the New World (June 29, 1990)

• Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (August 15, 1990) 

• During his Angelus message John Paul II makes an appeal for peace in the Persian Gulf, following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq (August 26, 1990)

• Pontifical Letter Ogni Qualvolta (August 30, 1990)

• Pastoral Visit to Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Yamoussoukro (1-10 September 1990)

• Address to the International Council for the catechesis (September 28, 1990)

• Message for the 10^th World Food Day (October 10, 1990)

• Promulgation of the Code of Canon Law for the Eastern Churches (October 10, 1990)

• John Paul II accepts the resignation of the Cardinal Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli and appoints Archbishop Angelo Sodano Pro-Secretary of State (December 1, 1990)

• Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio (December 7, 1990)

• Papal appeal for peace in the Gulf with the Christmas message Urbi et Orbi (December 25, 1990)