Maybe I've read them, and found them inconsequential and ungermane to the issues at hand....
I only have impressions and logical conclusions to go on--all of which can be wrong.
My HERETOFORE understanding of you and your personality was such that
I EXPECTED, ASSUMED with all the hazards of both . . . that
HAD you read such, you'd have owned doing so WELL BEFORE this.
That's how I read
--your personality
--your persistent kindness
--your Christ-like doing unto others . . .
--your virtual friendship with me
--your characteristic thoughtfulness
--your faithful fair-mindedness
--your tendency to face and fairly, logically deal with all reasonable sides of an issue;
-- . . .
And yet . . . you have STILL not said one way or the other.
That's most difficult for this psychologist to explain based on what I thought I knew about you.
The notion that such might not be considered germain to the encyclical is extremely beyond me--mystifies me to the max.
IF there IS such a globalist oligarchy
THEN it is smack dab in the bull's eye middle of the contentious paragraph of the encyclical.
HOW COULD IT LOGICALLY BE OTHERWISE?
You do seem to win the prize for leaving me maximally mystifyingly mind-boggled on this thread.
I'm beginning to think I don't know nor understand Betty Boop in the least. That saddens me greatly.
Sometimes recently seeing some of the things old faithful well known sorts of FRiends are posting on FR, one begins to get the frightful feeling that FR itself is slipping alarmingly close to Alice's rabbit hole.