New Encyclical a Best Seller
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, July 20, 2009 6:40 AM
According to this Rome Reports video, Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) has been selling at a brisk pace since its release earlier this month.
The video also provides information about a website, HDHCommunicagtions.com, where an online version of the encyclical can be purchased.
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Poor Thank Pope for Encyclical
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:42 AM
Refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Aid to the Church in Need)
Stating that he was writing on behalf of the world’s poor, Father Joaquin Alliende, the international president of Aid to the Church in Need, has praised Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth).
Reports Zenit:
Father Joaquin Alliende stated this in an open letter to the Pope as a response to the encyclical “Caritas in Veritate,” which was released to... READ MORE
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De Souza on Caritas in Veritate
Posted by Daily Blog
Friday, July 10, 2009 8:03 AM
Caritas in Veritate: Benedict’s Call for Love in the Marketplace
BY FATHER RAYMOND J. DE SOUZA
REGISTER CORRESPONDENT
Pope Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) is a complex document of which the constituent parts have given rise to various reactions by commentators, some of them contradictory.
In terms of practical policy recommendations, Benedict’s first social... READ MORE
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Benedict's ‘Communio-ist Manifesto’
Posted by Angelo Matera
Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:01 AM
Benedict signs a copy of Caritas in Veritate. (CNS/Reuters)
For commentators like First Things editor Joseph Bottum, one of the most unsettling statements in Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) — a dense and complex 30,000-word encyclical on the Church’s social doctrine — is the one that asserts an obligation to practice charity in all areas of public life equal to the obligation to practice personal charity:
“Every Christian is called to... READ MORE
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Pope: 'Ensure Ethics Shapes Economics'
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:14 PM
Pope Benedict XVI discussed his new encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), in remarks made in English during today’s general audience at the Vatican.
Said the Pope:
Today I wish to reflect on my encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. Some 40 years after Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Populorum Progressio, it too addresses social themes vital to the well-being of humanity and reminds us... READ MORE
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Two Takes on Caritas in Veritate
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:32 AM
The Acton Institute and George Weigel are two of Catholic America’s most prominent proponents of market-based economics.
But they have quite different views of Pope Benedict XVI’s new social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth).
The Acton Institute offers a strongly positive assessment, available here in a section of its website that it has devoted to the new papal... READ MORE
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Encyclical Discusses Life Issues
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:29 PM
Pope Benedict XVI signs a copy of Caritas in Veritate July 6. (CNS/Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI addresses issues related to the sanctity of human life and human sexuality in depth in three different areas of his new social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth).
In Chapter 2, titled “Human Development in Our Time,” the Pope states in No. 28:
One of the most striking aspects of development in the present day is the important question of respect for life,... READ MORE
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