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Usccb (2009), Paperback, 107 pages
Description
Addressing the worldwide economic crisis and the many grave problems facing humanity today, Pope Benedict XVI seeks solutions that are based on both love and truth. Only in truth, he writes in his third encyclical, can love shine forth. He envisions a society that seeks the common good; that respects life, the environment, and the dignity of human work; and that bases financial dealings on truly ethical foundations. Truth-filled love is a gift from God and so, the pope says, above all else we must turn to God in prayer, relying on his providence and mercy.
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LibraryThing member ebnelson
Perhaps the most important and well written thing I have read in years. This document has an elegance that helped convince me not only of the critical nature of the issue at hand, but also of the wisdom of the Pope and his Vatican editors. (A side effect of reading this document was realizing how
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pedestrian the editors at Penguin, Harper, and Simon & Schussler are.) Transcending the right/left boxes that everything else is framed with, Benedict presses forth based on biblical values that if taken seriously, will break American readers out of their current trappings. Poverty, labor, environment, justice, and ultimately meaning and purpose in daily life are given their due, not as topics for talk shows, but as the deepest concerns of the human race. Show Less
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Original publication date
2009-06-29
Physical description
107 p.
ISBN
1601370490 / 9781601370495