Caritas in Veritate
Benedict XVI's first social encyclical - on integral human development in charity and truth - was released on 7 July. Full text   

Presentation of the Encyclical
Check out the launch of Caritas in Veritate on the Vatican You Tube channel.   

Australian Comment
Initial responses to Caritas in Veritate by Bruce Duncan   and Neil Ormerod  

Migrant & Refugee Sunday
Resources from the South Australian Council of Churches to help you celebrate on 30 August.   

Fasting & Feasting
The Faith & Ecology Network explore food, faith and the environment at a forum on 2 August in Sydney.   

Caritas in Veritate Discussion Guide
Presents the key points together with questions for reflection and references to paragraph numbers to help you find exactly what the encyclical says on particular issues.  

Tips for Reading CST Documents
Some dos and don'ts for making sense of the new encyclical.  

PowerPoint Reflection on Charity & Truth
Meditate on quotes from the introduction to Caritas in Veritate on the theme of charity and truth.   

Unpacking the meaning and significance of Benedict XVI's first social encyclical Caritas in Veritate will take some time and effort.

Faith Doing Justice will provide a variety of resources to help you in this process over the coming months. We have made a start with a Discussion Guide to the encyclical and a PowerPoint presentation on the theme of love and truth - and our Tips for Reading Catholic Social Teaching Documents remain useful. Reflections on particular themes and topics will follow.

Sandie Cornish
Editor

"As the objects of God's love, men and women become subjects of charity, they are called to make themselves instruments of grace, so as to pour forth God's charity and to weave networks of charity.
This dynamic of charity received and given is what gives rise to the Church's social teaching, which is caritas in veritate in re sociali: the proclamation of the truth of Christ's love in society. This doctrine is a service to charity, but its locus is truth. Truth preserves and expresses charity's power to liberate in the ever-changing events of history."
Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate  

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