[Antoninus]

"We must," he says "promote a dispersed political authority."

This is what happens when people don't read the totality of the encyclical and try to cherry pick quotes.

Having read about 2/3 of the encyclical at this point, I can say that it's not the kind of thing that can be reduced to pull-quotes. It must be read, considered, digested, reconsidered, studied, and discussed.

[Patriotic1]

I must confess to frustration at times that His Awesomeness is such a learned theologian. People typically don’t digest things. Sometimes we need the Cliff Notes / Baltimore Catechism version.