Deus Caritas Est - the Release

(like everyone I'll have my comments to make once I've read it... I'll be focusing - in keeping with the purpose of this blog - on what the Encyclical teaches the Catholic youth of today. Considering the topic, I'm sure it teaches plenty)

In the meantime, read it yourselves - it is only 25 pages!

ENCYCLICAL LETTER

DEUS CARITAS EST

OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF

BENEDICT XVI

TO THE BISHOPS

PRIESTS AND DEACONSMEN

AND WOMEN RELIGIOUSA

ND ALL THE LAY FAITHFUL

ON CHRISTIAN LOVE

INTRODUCTION
1. “God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16). These words from the First Letter of John express with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian faith: the Christian image of God and the resulting image of mankind and its destiny. In the same verse, Saint John also offers a kind of summary of the Christian life: “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us”.

Read the rest of the Encyclical (25 pages).