Spe Salvi and The Need to Refect More Upon the Impact of Science On June 28th last, in response to the 2007 Papal
Encyclical Spe Salvi, L'Osservatore Romano published a piece by Ernesto Galli della Loggia.
The texts given are not just nice thoughts and ideas, they give us daily help in living our Christian life; to copy an idea from Pope Benedict's
Encyclical Spe Salvi, they are performative, not just informative.
And in his 2007
encyclical Spe Salvi, he argues that the measure of any culture is the degree to which it can identify with the suffering of the downtrodden.
Not exact matches
You did not include John XXIII's two
encyclicals often cited in this context, Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris, the Second Vatican Council's attempt at a social document, Gaudium et
Spes, or Paul VI's Populorum Progressio.
It seems reasonable, then, also to consider Lumen Fidei as the final instalment in Benedict's trilogy on the theological virtues — his
encyclical on faith, whereas Deus Caritas Est and
Spe Salvi had treated love and hope, respectively.