I have started reading the Pope’s new encyclical Deus Caritas Est. I will give my thoughts on it when I’m finished. As with any writing coming from the Vatican, especially by one so theologically astute as Benedict XVI, it may take awhile to read carefully. So far think that the encyclical is a an excellent teaching on love, a theme which is often completely twisted in culture and sometimes the Church.

Update for those coming via an aggregator: My thoughts (part I) are here.