In his recent Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate on integral human development in charity and truth, Pope Benedict XVI, taking into consideration the current context of efforts to promote development, underlines the need for a “new humanistic synthesis” (n. 21), which, safeguarding the openness of man to God, gives him his place as the earth’s “centre and summit” (n. 57). A true development, then, must be ordered “to the whole man and to every man” (Populorum Progressio, n. 42).
Katika Waraka wake wa Kiinsiklika wa hivi karibuni Caritas in veritate juu ya maendeleo kamili ya mwanadamu katika upendo na ukweli, Papa Benedikto XVI, akizingatia muktadha wa sasa wa juhudi za kukuza maendeleo, anatilia mkazo hitaji la “usanisi mpya wa ubinadamu” (n. 21) ambao unalinda uwazi wa mtu kwa Mungu, unaompa mtu mahali pake duniani kama “kiini na kilele” (n. 57) . Maendeleo ya kweli, basi, hayana budi kupangiliwa hivi kwa ajili ya “ mtu mzima na kwa kila binadamu” (Populorum Progressio, n. 42).