New encyclical to appear July 7 [CWN]

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The Vatican has announced a publication date for Caritatis in Veritate, the long-awaited social encylical by Pope Benedict XVI. The document will be released on Tuesday, July 7. Cardinal …

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Just in time for the G-8 meeeting in Italy. 🙂
 
Can someone translate “Caritatis in Veritate” for me? Thank you.
 
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Truth in love. As in our duty to speak the truth to others in love.
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Actually…a direct translation is “Love in Truth”. We’ll have to wait and see what Pope Benedict means by it 😉

John Allen has a preview of the contents here. I wrote my senior thesis on Benedict’s thought in his first two encyclicals, and I find Allen’s ‘predictions’ to be spot-on.
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Rach620 said:
Actually…a direct translation is “Love in Truth”. We’ll have to wait and see what Pope Benedict means by it 😉

John Allen has a preview of the contents here. I wrote my senior thesis on Benedict’s thought in his first two encyclicals, and I find Allen’s ‘predictions’ to be spot-on.
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Ah, you are correct. I guess I need to brush up on my Latin! 😊
 
I can’t wait. I only hope the language is sufficiently simple and unambiguous so that more confusion doesn’t arise. :cool:
 
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