"Caritas in veritate":
Pope Benedict XVI's enyclical 10 years later
The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
organises an International Conference in the Vatican to explore the impact and
inflluence of Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical, Caritas in veritate, ten years
after its publication.
Pope Benedict XVI wrote three encyclicals. Caritas
in veritate is the third.
Published on 29 June 2009, and coming forty years after Pope
St. Paul VI’s Encyclical, Populorum progressio, Caritas in
veritate confirms how “charity in truth” is the principal force behind
the true development of every person and of all humanity.
Benedict XVI once said, "Only with
charity, illumined by reason and by faith, is it possible to achieve goals of
development endowed with human and humanizing values".
These same values were at the heart of an International
Conference on the theme, “Theory and Praxis of Development”, held in the
Vatican on Tuesday December 3rd, and organized by the Dicastery for
Promoting Integral Human Development.
Cardinal Peter Turkson, the Prefect of Dicastery for
Promoting Integral Human Development was present at the Conference. He explained: "From
the point of view of the Church’s social teaching, what’s the contribution we
can make to the sense of development? So that’s why we are gathered here".
Theologians, academics, and experts from around the world
gathered at the Casina Pio IV, the home of the Vatican Academy of Social
Sciences, to discuss why Caritas in veritate still has so much
to teach us, 10 years after its publication.
Prof. Stefano Zamagni is the President of Pontifical Academy
of Social Sciences, and was also present at the Conference. He said "It’s
the first time in Catholic social teaching an Encyclical Letter devoted so much
attention to the world of the economy, of the market."
Pope Benedict XVI wrote Caritas in veritate in
the midst of the global financial crisis of 2009. Which is why the Encyclical
covers such a wide variety of issues: from globalization to the environment –
even anticipating Pope Francis’, Encyclical Laudato sì.
Prof. Adriana Gomez Chico Spamer is from the Mexican
Institute of Christian Social Doctrine. She describes Caritas in
veritate as "a basis to understand the next
Encyclicals that come. And Caritas and Veritate are both at the centre of this
understanding".
The Conference explored Pope Benedict’s Encyclical under a
variety of headings, economic, political, and theological, always coming to the
same conclusion:
Benedict XVI: "Charity in truth is
therefore the principal force behind the true development of every person and
of all humanity".
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