You did the best you could and it was respectfully done. This paper (hesitating to call it an encyclical) has all the earmarks of a committee product with its internal inconsistencies — both substantively and in style. The Pope told us it was Turkson’s “team” on the first draft and, later, unnamed theologians on the third draft. Color coding? Not a bad idea; you could have colors for The Good, the Bad, and the Silly.
Overall the document is clearly buying into man-made global warming and in the background are the themes of liberation theology. The hands are the hands of Francis but the voice is the voice of Leonardo Boff (e.g., the “cry of the earth” is in the title of one of Boff’s books). This paper cites the Rio conference of 1992: that’s where they sang, “Were You There When the Crucified the Earth?”
Its essence is anti-Catholic, with a few strategic fig leaves scattered throughout the eco-socialist rhetoric to assuage the credulous Catholic reader.
This paper cites the Rio conference of 1992: that’s where they sang, “Were You There When the Crucified the Earth?”
Disgusting.
There's no doubt this thing bifurcates on authors and on authority. (I like what you said about the hands vs the voice, like Esau/Jacob.) Not that I am an expert on the background documents--- I'm not --- but what I'm thinking is that the "business" end was written by somebody like Jeffrey Sachs and he just cut and pasted chunks from "Religions United" and "Agenda 21".