Promoting Common Good Includes Regulating Economy, Cardinal Says

Catholic News Service – July 28, 2009 – By Cindy Wooden
ROME (CNS) — The fastest way to recover from the current economic crisis and the only way to ensure that a similar financial meltdown does not occur again is for governments to take seriously their role as regulators, the Vatican secretary of state told members [...]

Will Pope Benedict’s Encyclical Take Root? Only Time Will Tell

Catholic News Service – July 10, 2009 – By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Now that Pope Benedict XVI’s long-awaited social encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), has been released, a key question arises: Will the pope’s call to reform economic and social systems so they encompass broader moral values while focusing on human development [...]

Pontifical Academy President Comments on Caritas in Veritate

Zenit.org – July 23, 2009 – By Carmen Elena Villa
ROME, JULY 23, 2009 (Zenit.org) – “Caritas in Veritate” presents the new face of development, true ethics and human dignity, according to the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, who is also rector of the Pontifical Lateran University, gave his evaluation of Benedict [...]

Pope Urges Workers’ Voices be Heard, Unions Adapt to Global Economy

Catholic News Service – July 20, 2009 – By Chaz Muth
WASHINGTON (CNS) — When Pope Benedict XVI released his third encyclical — “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”) — he stressed that the voice of workers must be heard as heads of state, industry moguls, labor union leaders and environmentalists develop long-term solutions for the [...]

Father Lombardi: Pope Points to Way Out of Crisis

Zenit.org – July 12, 2009
VATICAN CITY, JULY 12, 2009 (Zenit.org) – In the encyclical “Caritas in Veritate,” Benedict XVI shows the way out of the global economic crisis, says a Vatican spokesman.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, summed up the contribution of Benedict XVI’s third encyclical in three words: “development, gratuity [...]

Caritas in Veritate: The Pope Knows Where We Have to Go

The Cardinal Van Thuân International Observatory – July 15, 2009 – By Monsignor Giampaolo Crepaldi
Caritas in veritate is destined to speak to us for a long time to come, and we should speak about it for just as long. Approximately twenty years after the Centesimus annus of John Paul II the Church once again sets [...]

Spiritual Needs Must be Part of Solution to Global Crisis, says Pope

Catholic News Service – July 13, 2009 – By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Solutions to the world’s numerous crises must include strategies to meet people’s human and spiritual needs and not focus just on providing material support, Pope Benedict XVI said.
An overemphasis on technology or giving in to a sort of “supremacy of technology, [...]

Pope Defines Real Social Development by Drawing on Paul VI

Catholic News Agency – July 7, 2009
Vatican City, Jul 7, 2009 / (CNA) – Today Pope Benedict XVI delivered his encyclical “Caritas in veritate,” drawing heavily on Pope Paul VI’s vision of real human development, which insists upon progress in the moral and spiritual realms, in addition to the material. Paul VI’s teaching on development, [...]

Caritas In Veritate a ‘Roadmap’ for Business Professionals, Catholic Business Writer Says

Catholic News Agency – July 9, 2009
El Sobrante, Calif., Jul 9, 2009 / (CNA) – The founder of the Catholic Business Journal has responded to Pope Benedict’s latest encyclical “Caritas in veritate,” characterizing it as a useful and practical “roadmap for all of humanity” that should be read by all business professionals.
Karen Walker, founder and [...]

Goldman Sachs Executive says New Encyclical is the Best Analysis of the Economic Crisis

Times of London – July 13, 2009 – By Brian Griffiths
When Cardinal Ratzinger was elected Pope, his strengths and weaknesses seemed clear. Here was an eminent theologian, philosopher and guardian of Christian truth, but a man unlikely to make the Church’s message relevant to the world today. How simplistic this now looks in the light [...]

Business Ethicist Comments on New Encyclical, “The Economy is not a Moral-free Zone”

Zenit.org – July 7, 2009 – By Genevieve Pollock
WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 7, 2009 (Zenit.org) – Benedict XVI’s new encyclical is not pretending to solve the worldwide financial crisis, but it points the way for building a solid economy through Christian virtue, says a business ethicist.
Andrew Abela is a marketing professor and chair of Catholic University [...]

Pope Benedict XVI Offers Commentary on Encyclical; Affirms “Truth” and “Love” at Heart of Social Doctrine

Zenit.org – July 8, 2009
VATICAN CITY, JULY 8, 2009 (Zenit.org) – Benedict XVI gave a personal commentary on his third encyclical today, dedicating the general audience to a consideration of “Caritas in Veritate.”
The Pope’s first social encyclical was released Tuesday after a June 29 signing.
The document, the Holy Father said in his discourse in Paul [...]

Pope Provides Ethical Basis for Addressing Crisis

Zenit.org – July 7, 2009 – By Carl Anderson
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, JULY 7, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Long before there was a “left wing,” or a “right wing,” there was the Gospel, and long after these political labels have faded into oblivion, the Gospel will remain. In light of this, it is incredibly important that we come [...]

Vatican Releases Pope Benedict’s New Social Encyclical – “Caritas in Veritate”

Vatican Information Service – July 7, 2009
VATICAN CITY, 7 JUL 2009 (VIS) – This morning in the Holy See Press Office a press conference was held to present Benedict XVI’s new Encyclical “Caritas in veritate”. Participating in the event were Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Cardinal Paul [...]

Poll Shows Americans Eagerly Awaiting Pope’s First Social Encyclical

Zenit.org – July 3, 2009
ROME, JULY 3, 2009 (Zenit.org) – Benedict XVI’s views on the current financial crisis, included in his first social encyclical — which will be released July 7 — could possibly become a bestseller in the United States if a recent survey carried out by the Knights of Columbus holds true.
The Knights’ [...]

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