Last Friday I called attention to the very fine article by Professor David Nirenberg in the current issue of The New Republic in which he reviews Pope Benedict rsquo s encyclical Caritas in Veritate And I posted a link to my initial response to Nirenberg which has itself garnered some interesting

Cambridge MA We are now safely into Fall and so it is really time to clear off my desk of books that came in during the summer that is to say books that were sent to me sometimes from friends or authors I rsquo ve known over the years and sometimes out of the blue In front of me right now ar

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The New Republic has an interesting review of Pope Benedict s encyclical Caritas in Veritate I think it speaks well of both that non-Catholic journal and of the substantiveness of Pope Benedict s thought that they even took cognizance of it and did so more thoughtfully than many Catholic commenta

The mainstream media of which this journal is a part relies on reporting on evidence on weighing a variety of opinions on controversial topics etc and generally I think the MSM does a fine job Certainly the press makes all politicians of all ideological stripes uncomfortable and accountable

I ve spoken today to bishops and to people who have also spoken to bishops about yesterday s story see my post on next year s papal visit to the UK which will be only the second in British history the first was John Paul II s in 1982 What I ve learned 1 Both Rome and the Church in the UK w