Until you get around to reading it — I know I don't have time for at least a couple more days — bear in mind what Jimmy Akin has to say. Especially this part:
1) Do not put weight on anything you read in the newspaper or on secular talk radio regarding the encyclical. The mainstream media simply does not "get" religion, and they are too incompetent on matters of religion to report accurately anything that the pope says or does. Sorry, but it's the truth.
Yup. I saw a couple of headlines yesterday as I read the news, one of which went something like "POPE CALLS FOR ALL-WORLD GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL ECONOMY." The proper response to something like this is eye-rolling and a muttered "Yeah, can't wait to see where they got that from."
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