On integral human development in charity and truth.
«"The crisis forces us to review our path, to give ourselves new rules and to find new forms of commitment, to rely on positive experiences and to reject negative ones" (Benedict XVI)
In his third encyclical, Benedict XVI addresses with realism and hope the problems created by the financial crisis, by the lack of international institutions capable of reforming the bureaucratic inefficiency that prolongs the underdevelopment of many peoples and by the lack of ethics of many mentalities that predominate in opulent societies.
"It is necessary - says the Pope - that a conscience of solidarity matures that considers food and access to water as universal rights of all humans, without distinctions or discrimination."
"What produces these situations is the darkened reason of man, not the means as such. Therefore, we must not reproach the means or instrument but man, his moral conscience and his personal and social responsibility."
"Development needs Christians with their arms raised towards God in prayer, Christians aware that the love full of truth, caritas in veritate, from which authentic development comes, is not the result of our efforts but a gift."