President William Fahey of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire, was interviewed by Zenit earlier this week about Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical Caritas in Veritate.  Fahey drew forth some implications for Catholic education from the encyclical.   “Academics do not dwell much on charity or love and its relationship to the truth—or vice versa,” said Fahey, “But as the Holy Father reminds us, to know the truth entails a love of the truth; to love the truth means that we will be urged to act, to share the truth. This seems so simple as not to deserve comment, but upon reflection it is profound. As a Catholic educator, when I meditate on this, I perceive more clearly the connection between the intellectual life and the life of grace, the work that chiefly occupies the study or classroom and the broader work of evangelization.”  Of the line from the encyclical, “To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life…,” Fahey explains, “This is a fine summary, I think, of the Catholic educational endeavor, a joyful endeavor because of the privileged task to bear witness to the truth.”  Source: Thomas More College of Liberal Arts