{"id":860,"date":"2009-07-07T08:46:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T15:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2009-07-07T08:46:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T15:46:59","slug":"caritas-in-veritate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/07\/07\/caritas-in-veritate\/","title":{"rendered":"Caritas in Veritate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An extensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/benedict_xvi\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html\">new Papal Encyclial<\/a> was just issued concerning social teaching in light of the current economic crisis.\u00a0 This is an important document, which all Christians should carefully consider.\u00a0 I hope to do a number of posts on it.\u00a0 A taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We recognize . . . that the Church had good reason to be concerned about the capacity of a purely technological society to set realistic goals and to make good use of the instruments at its disposal.\u00a0 Profit is useful if it serves as a means towards an end that provides a sense of both of how to produce it and how to make good use of it.\u00a0 Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth and creating poverty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extensive new Papal Encyclial was just issued concerning social teaching in light of the current economic crisis.\u00a0 This is an important document, which all Christians should carefully consider.\u00a0 I hope to do a number of posts on it.\u00a0 A taste: We recognize . . . that the Church had good reason to be concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,5,38,26,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-law-and-policy","category-religious-legal-theory","category-science-technology","category-spirituality","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-dS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}