Friends,

Yesterday, if you haven’t heard, our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI issued a new Encyclical. As the successor to Peter and Bishop of Rome our Holy Father delivers this wonderful documents for our reading, study and development.

I receive a daily email from Zenit a news agency in the Vatican. Many of you may use this service as well. I was pleased to see almost the entire day devoted to articles on the new encyclical.

The new Encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), is a great document that will go down as one of our Holy Father’s great works. In our current world, with economic issues, divided politics, and a divided Church, this new document is a wonderful road map to unity in social issues.

I particularly liked this article on Zenit’s home page http://www.zenit.org/article-26401?l=english

I hope you will join me in reading this new Encyclical and in studying it for some time to come.

The new Encyclical: Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) can be found in full on the Vatican website here:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html

You can read all of the Zenit articles here:
http://www.zenit.org/index.php?l=english