Caritas in Veritate Update

Vatican Information Service has just announced that Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical will be formally presented at a July 7 press conference.

The Pope signed the encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), on Monday. It deals with social and economic issues.

Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino and Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, and Stefano Zamagni, professor of political economy at the University of Bologna, Italy, and consultor of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, will participate at the July 7 press conference, Vatican Information Service reported.