Caritas in Iustitia Distributiva

Excertos de Caritas in Iustitia Distributiva por Gabriel E. Vidal, no Mises.org:

.... when Benedict transitions from a philosophical framework to specific economic analysis and policy recommendations, particularly as he tries to carefully maintain a "middle of the road" approach to the logic of the market and economic crises, many [classical-liberals] will take exception.

Since Benedict makes a call for truth, the reader should expect the encyclical to go through a step-by-step logical deduction, via cause and effect relationships, to connect voluntary exchanges between individuals in a free market to the deficiencies observed in the current model of economic development. Benedict does not take this approach. Instead, he simply assumes that this correlation is obvious and true.

Caritas in Veritate represents a lost opportunity to continue to develop the classical-liberal ideas contained in Pope Benedict's first encyclical, Deus Carita Est, in his previous writings on Christianity as a philosophy of creative freedom, and in John Paul II's treatment of Catholic Social Doctrine in Centesimus Annus.