Charity in Truth is Benedict’s encyclical on social justice. Rather than staring with justice and rights or with the various social issues, the Pope first lays a solid foundation for understanding by exploring the crucial ideas of charity and truth. “Charity is at the heart of the Church’s social doctrine,” he writes. “Without truth, there is no social conscience and responsibility, and social action ends up serving private interests and the logic of power”.

Experts from the encyclical Caritas in Veritate, Read by Kevin O’Brien