"We’re passing through the worst economic

dislocation of the past 80 years. Our politics

are polarized; our institutions gridlocked. The

governing party is mistrusted, the minority party

despised. Yet there’s remarkably little radical

thinking taking place. That's why the time is ripe for

us to give heed to Pope Benedict's third encyclical,

Caritas in Veritate, authored by an 82-year-old

graduate of the Hitler Youth and written in

radical, yet nonpartisan, Latin."