Pope Benedict XVI's newest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, which translates to "Charity in Truth," is now available. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the new encyclical provides helpful guidance for finding answers to the social, economic and moral questions of the contemporary world in a search for truth.

The encyclical offers sound reflections on the vocation of human development as well as on the moral principles on which a global economy must be based. It is also a call to see the relationship between human and environmental ecologies, and to link charity and truth in the pursuit of justice, the common good and authentic human development. In doing so, the pope points out the responsibilities and limitations of government and the private market, challenges traditional ideologies of right and left and calls all men and women to think and act anew.