The third encyclical letter of Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, published in 2009, had great impact and was much discussed in all spheres. Its precedent is the Sixth Episcopal Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida, in 2007, and as its geopolitical base, Obama's election as the first black U.S. president, the global economic crisis and the G-20's meetings trying to overcome it. This Encyclical letter is very rich in themes: It covers economy, bioethics, technology, abortion, fair trade, ethics, truth, charity, the Catholic Church's Social Doctrine It points to charity as the main road for the Church's Social Doctrine and uses the message of PopulorumProgressio, which refers to the economy and peoples' development, as a starting point.
