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Article: In his new encyclical on the Catholic Church's social teaching, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI stresses humanitarian action rather than the profit motive as the solution to man's socioeconomic problems.(The Week)(Brief article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 10, 2009
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In his new encyclical on the Catholic Church's social teaching, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI stresses humanitarian action rather than the profit motive as the solution to man's socioeconomic problems. In its practical recommendations, however, the encyclical appears to be riding two horses--the russet horse of those who think the state is the main road to the common good, and the pale horse of those who think a strictly limited state should spur a thousand free initiatives and civic actions as a surer way to the common good. But as the ...