'CARITAS IN VERITATE'

THE 'CIV' PHENOMENON


Just keeping up with the various 'first editions' and giveawey versions of Caritas in Veritate is a minor news beat in itself! I have to research whether papal encyclicals were ever in popular demand before Benedict XVI came along wtih Deus caritas est. I think not,


The give-away editions:

Left to right, with L'Osservatore Romano, with Famiglia Cristiana, and with L'Espresso. (This last surprised me - this magazine is sort of like the Italian version of TIME, and why a secular publication would be giving away the Pope's encyclical is historic in its own way!)


More commercial 'first editions:

Left to right, a LEV commerical edition (Italian), and two English editions.


Avvenire plugs its own giveaway (similar to the OR giveaway- which is the unadorned LEV text):



And Famiglia Cristiana, Italy's most widely-circulated magazine, promotes its CIV supplement.

This issue has a couple of excellent review articles of CIV - I hope I can translate them.