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God Is Love: Understanding Benedict XVI’s First Encyclical is unavailable, but you can change that!

“We have come to believe in God’s love; in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life.” So begins the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est. To help every Catholic understand the content and significance of this first encyclical of our new pope, Jimmy Akin has constructed a guide covering both the issues surrounding the nature of a papal...

separated. The more the two, in their different aspects, find a proper unity in the one reality of love, the more the true nature of love in general is realized.18 The Pope would say that this is not the case. No one can be self-giving all the time. We all have a need for the love of others, particularly for the love of God, who is the source of all love: Man … cannot always give; he
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