Samuel Gregg is Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy and Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research and serves as affiliate scholar at the Acton Institute.
Posts by Samuel Gregg
July 09, 2009
As the squabbling continues over the at-times contradictory policy-suggestions contained in Benedict XVI’s social encyclical, there’s a risk that the deeper – and more important – theological themes of the text will be overlooked.
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July 08, 2009
It was, I suppose, inevitable. The moment Benedict XVI’s social encyclical appeared, the
Washington Post, the
Los Angeles Times,
USA Today, and the usual suspects predictably portrayed
Caritas in Veritate as a “left-wing” text.
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July 07, 2009
Relativists beware. Whether you like it or not, truth matters – even in the economy. That’s the core message of Pope Benedict XVI’s new social encyclical
Caritas in Veritate.
For 2000 years, the Catholic Church has hammered home a trio of presently-unpopular ideas into the humus of human civilization: that there is truth; that it is not simply of the scientific variety; that it is knowable through faith and reason; and that it is not whatever you want or “feel” it to be.
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