All encyclicals are born equal, but they don’t age equally well. Upon publication, a new encyclical is widely reported, and attention is paid throughout the world of Catholic media and scholarship.

Benedict XVI announced that it will be published on January 25. Love is a single movement that has various dimensions and leads to concern for and self-giving to the other, the family, society, the ...

Pope Benedict’s first encyclical letter is superb in many ways and well deserves the nearly universal praise it has received. I found Deus Caritas Est informative, inspiring and at times extremely ...

Vatican City (Fides Service) - The title of the recent Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI is of immense prophetic value in our times marked by great promise for dialogue and encounter and at the same ...

In his first keenly-awaited encyclical, Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love), released yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI has reaffirmed fundamental Catholic beliefs about the primary role of love and charity in ...

In his encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict XVI explored the relationship between eros and agape, desire and self-gift, with pastoral sensitivity and theological depth. A few days before ...