[1000 silverlings]

Here's one thing that jumps out at me while reading Caritas in Veritate, the author comes at the social problem and solution, that Christians may have a love for "the world", but fails to consider that the world does not love Christians or Christianity, and moreover, Christ told us so. So it's doomed from the start. We are in this world, not of it, and meant to be salt, not salt that has been watered down and lost it's taste.

[betty boop]

Christians may have a love for "the world", but fails to consider that the world does not love Christians or Christianity, and moreover, Christ told us so. So it's doomed from the start.

Why is it "doomed from the start?" Is the future nothing but the recapitulation of the past? Is the earthly system closed to the heavenly?

Sounds suspiciously "Newtonian" to me.... And who cares whether the world loves Christians or not anyway? Does "the world" love Truth? Does "the world" even know what Truth is? [e.g., Pilate's question].

Whether we are loved or hated, our vocation as Christians is wholly in Christ, Who Is Logos, Who is Truth. And we Christians have a positive duty to proclaim Him from the rooftops.

What has become of your Christian HOPE?