(30 Nov 07 - RV) “Saved by Hope” … That is the title of Pope Benedict XVI’s Second
Encyclical released here today at the Vatican. It follows on from the Holy Fathers
first encyclical dedicate to the theme of love. And it has not gone unnoticed that
the both encyclicals, the highest form of papal writing, have centred on two of the
three theological virtues as Lydia O’Kane reports: