Is it moral to print out "Spe Salvi"?

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I ask this because at the bottom of the page it says “© Copyright 2007 - Libreria Editrice Vaticana”.

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I ask this because at the bottom of the page it says “© Copyright 2007 - Libreria Editrice Vaticana”.

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I imagine it is, if it is for personal use, and not for financial gain. Can you imagine the pope saying, “How dare you share my encyclical with your father who doesn’t have internet!!! Or the nuns who don’t have Ipods!! It’s meant to be purchased by those who can’t read it online!!! Anathema!!!”
 
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I ask this because at the bottom of the page it says “© Copyright 2007 - Libreria Editrice Vaticana”.

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Not sure about the rest of its readers, but i can’t read longish works from my screen. So I download and print it so I can read it. There are ways to make things very hard to print if not impossible if the item was not meant to be used.

Now of course it would be wrong to print this for profit.
 
I imagine it is copywrited so that they have legal recourse against those who would change a few words to alter the meaning then present it as the real thing. If they intended to prevent sharing it wouldn’t have been posted to the internet in the first place.
 
Come now, this is slightly scrupulous.

Things on the internet are the public domain, and can be printed for personal use, but, as others have said, not to be sold. I have never actually seen a **Vatican-**printed encyclical.

We theology students would be far poorer if Mother Church wouldn’t allow us access to her teachings for free!
 
The Holy Father led the first Vespers service of Advent in St. Peter’s basilica, and remarked that it was fitting that his encyclical on hope, Spe Salvi, was released just before the start of the season. He encouraged the faithful to read the encyclical, “meditate upon it, and rediscover the beauty and profundity of Christian hope.”

cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=55094

Looks like a green light to me.
 
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