{"id":3296,"date":"2009-07-10T08:12:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T12:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2009-07-10T12:15:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T16:15:03","slug":"caritas-in-veritate-why-truth-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/caritas-in-veritate-why-truth-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Caritas in Veritate: Why Truth Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acton.org\/commentary\/534_caritas_in_veritate_why_truth_matters.php\">Acton Institute<\/a> |  Samuel Gregg | July 8, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Relativists beware. Whether you like it or not, truth matters \u2013 even in the economy. That\u2019s the core message of Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s new social encyclical Caritas in Veritate.<\/p>\n<p>For 2000 years, the Catholic Church has hammered home a trio of presently-unpopular ideas into the humus of human civilization: that there is truth; that it is not simply of the scientific variety; that it is knowable through faith and reason; and that it is not whatever you want or \u201cfeel\u201d it to be. Throughout his entire life, Benedict XVI has underscored these themes, precisely because much of the world, including many Christians, has lost sight of their importance. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Relativists beware. Whether you like it or not, truth matters \u2013 even in the economy. That\u2019s the core message of Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s new social encyclical Caritas in Veritate.<\/p>\n<p>For 2000 years, the Catholic Church has hammered home a trio of presently-unpopular ideas into the humus of human civilization: that there is truth; that it is not simply of the scientific variety; that it is knowable through faith and reason; and that it is not whatever you want or \u201cfeel\u201d it to be. Throughout his entire life, Benedict XVI has underscored these themes, precisely because much of the world, including many Christians, has lost sight of their importance.<\/p>\n<p>Relativists beware. Whether you like it or not, truth matters \u2013 even in the economy. That\u2019s the core message of Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s new social encyclical Caritas in Veritate.<\/p>\n<p>For 2000 years, the Catholic Church has hammered home a trio of presently-unpopular ideas into the humus of human civilization: that there is truth; that it is not simply of the scientific variety; that it is knowable through faith and reason; and that it is not whatever you want or \u201cfeel\u201d it to be. Throughout his entire life, Benedict XVI has underscored these themes, precisely because much of the world, including many Christians, has lost sight of their importance.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acton.org\/commentary\/534_caritas_in_veritate_why_truth_matters.php\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acton Institute | Samuel Gregg | July 8, 2009 Relativists beware. Whether you like it or not, truth matters \u2013 even in the economy. That\u2019s the core message of Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s new social encyclical Caritas in Veritate. For 2000 years, the Catholic Church has hammered home a trio of presently-unpopular ideas into the humus &#8230; <a title=\"Caritas in Veritate: Why Truth Matters\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/caritas-in-veritate-why-truth-matters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Caritas in Veritate: Why Truth Matters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,87,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism","category-economics","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}