In a bid to impact the upcoming G8 summit, Pope Benedict’s long
awaited encyclical on markets and morality - dubbed the first “google
encyclical’ because researchers used the search engine to access the
latest economic research - will now be published on 2 July.
Pope Benedict signed the document Monday, the Times Online reports,
but the text, which focuses on globalisation, poverty and the financial
crisis, will be published 48 hours before the meeting of world leaders
at L’Aquila in Italy - a week-long delay.
Caritas in veritate, Love or charity in truth, will outline the
ethical values that the faithful must “tirelessly defend” to ensure
“true freedom and solidarity”, the Pope said recently. He said that the
global downturn demonstrated the need to “rethink economic and
financial paradigms that have been dominant in recent years.”
The encyclical analyses the destructive effect on society of the
pursuit of commercial or private interests without “social
responsibility” or “conscience and honesty”. It proposes an
international agreement on globalisation based on “the principles of
subsidiarity and solidarity” and “the values of charity and truth”.
The Pope has been working on the encyclical for two years, but
delayed it in order to bring it up to date and reflect the global
economic crisis. Its publication has been further delayed by
translation problems into Latin, according to the Italian newspaper la
Repubblica.
Although Pope Benedict has encouraged a return to Latin in the
liturgy, there is a dwindling number of experts able to find Latin
equivalents for terms such as “market value” and “tax haven”.
This encyclical will be the first written with the help of Google,
the Times Online says. Theologians have done months of research on the
internet to ensure the new document is up to date with its economics as
well as its theology.
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Pope holds back key morality statement to hit G8 (Times Online)