Jeremiah John

JEREMIAH JOHN {[email protected]} is assistant professor of politics at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, Virginia.

Loving Truthfully | Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 2

Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI’s third encyclical letter, is a striking beginning for his papal contribution to Catholic social teaching. In a sense, the encyclical confirms one piece of conventional wisdom about his papacy—that it is a work of consolidating the monumental legacy of John Paul II and, less directly, the ecclesiastical and theological developments of the whole post-Vatican II period.