Not news, really, since the previous report on the social encyclical - in Andrea Tornielli's piece about coming Curial changes two days ago - said it would be dated June 29, Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, and will probably be released on that day or shortly thereafter.
Pope’s encyclical ‘almost ready’
Issue of 28 May 2009
Pope Benedict XVI has completed his long-awaited encyclical on social issues and the text is now being translated into several languages, according to a Vatican official.
The new document –
Caritas in Veritate (“Love in truth”) – is about 100 pages long, the official said.
Originally planned for 2007 to mark the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s landmark social encyclical
Populorum Progressio, the new papal document suffered a succession of delays as the current global economic crisis unfolded.
“The new social encyclical … can be an instrument to help politics recover its function: that of designing the architectural structures of our social life in the way of justice, freedom, truth and solidarity,” Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, secretary of the Justice and Peace council, told Vatican Radio earlier.