Pope: "Deus caritas est", all love comes from God and leads to him
Benedict XVI's first encyclical stresses that it was God to love first. When eros is concerned first for the other before oneself it becomes agape. The service of charity is intrinsic to the nature of the Church, but must be "for all", be able to come "from the heart", be independent of ideologies and not have ulterior motives. The example of Mother Teresa.
