FR as a whole is not Christian Right, and Christian Right is not Catholic Christian Right. I think, given the Americasn experience in particular, we should be leary of world political authorities, and the posts on that thread reflect that unease.
On the other hand, your warnings were mostly about the non-negotiability of pro-life political agenda. Where is any softening on that in the encyclical?
My warnings were about the uncanonical and even heretical positions politics have gotten some of the Latin bishops into and how very ready so many of the Latin Rite laity were to follow them into that spiritual shipwreck. The reaction we are seeing to the Pope's encyclical here on FR reflect the same tendency among the right here to view religion through the lens of politics; in other words, if what The Church teaches doesn't square with a very parochial American mindset and the life philosophy of an increasingly narrow segment of society, then it is not teaching The Truth as The Church has always taught it, but rather a sort of demonized philosophy, socialism or communism. Alex, the Pope is teaching The Truth and that Truth it is hoped will cause a metanoia which in turn with transform society in the “City of God” as he says. This isn't about politics, its about theosis. What those intermeddling hierarchs were up to wasn't theosis, certainly not the heresiarch Martino; it was pure politics.