Pope Benedict Explains Deus Caritas Est

Catholic Outsider has translated a letter that the Pope wrote for the readers of the Italian magazine “Famiglia Cristiana” explaining the encyclical.

Here we find two questions: Can’t the Church leave this service to so many other philanthropic organizations?

This is the answer: No, the Church cannot do that. She has to practice love for the neighbor also as a community, otherwise she will announce the God of love in an incomplete and insufficient way...

Really good ... and much easier to read than I found that encyclical, by the way. Go read it.