Comments on: Up for a “Caritas in Veritate” Reading Group?

By: Darthe Hues

Darthe Hues — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:07:43 +0000

I would like to join the group please.

By: Chris Faddis

Chris Faddis — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:59:31 +0000

I’m in… thanks for setting this up. I will be reposting your invite to this discussion on my blog as well. Blessings.

Chris Faddis

By: Linda Oppelt

Linda Oppelt — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:23:58 +0000

I would like to participate too, as much as I am able.

By: Laura L Baylis-Lockett

Laura L Baylis-Lockett — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:31:36 +0000

I’m in!

By: Clare Krishan

Clare Krishan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:00:16 +0000

What a good suggestion, I’m in (as a Grandma, development means what sort of a world am I leaving my granddaughter?)

ditto Thomas Meehan, “The church uses it’s own rather particular language”

Perhaps a vocab list as the material is covered (and while there’s already been a wordcloud generated it may be helpful to group terms that are related, for example logic or -ology (as in anthropology,.ecology) crop up consistently (over two dozen times) and indicate a train of thought that has a particular relevance for Christians when viewed as distinct from the predominant secular logical positivist mindset.

By: Br. Matthew Augustine Miller, OP

Br. Matthew Augustine Miller, OP — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:52:26 +0000

Count me in.

By: JFD

JFD — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:35:42 +0000

I’d like to get in on this. I’m new to philosophy/theology. But as a prospective seminarian I’d like to throw my hat into this group.

By: jh

jh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:28:17 +0000

THis neo Con leaning Catholic will be there. I am excited about this dicument

By: Crunchy Con

Crunchy Con — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:18:07 +0000

Benedict’s crunchy-con encyclical…

If you want to read the full 30,000-word text of Pope Benedict’s new (and third) encyclical, Charity in Truth (Caritas in Veritate), go here. But Catholic Culture offers a fine summation of it. Here are excerpts from that precis relevant……

By: David von Seggern

David von Seggern — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:30:58 +0000

I will participate to some extent. I am a fallen-away Catholic, not prone to reading papal encyclicals; but this appears to be one of the most relevant social documents to emanate from the Vatican in a long time. Thanks for taking the lead.