What tender pause, what sighs, what joy is mine
to realize anew prevailing grace
in earthly love, the shadows of Divine
Mercy manifest in a lovers face.
It calls us outwards from our parents’ arms
to succumb, in trust, to the Lover’s charms.
Caritas in Veritate, “Charity in Truth,” the title of Pope Benedict’s recent social encyclical, is the key the Holy Father presents our times in the turmoil of its societal and personal crises as well as in the aspiration found in its efforts at progress. Caritas in Veritate is the kind of encyclical that opens horizons and builds foundations for a fully-human worldview with which any Catholic may approach the world regardless of his profession or calling in life.
