Horse hockey that you paid anything for what is obtainable for free from numerous on line sources and double horse hockey that you actually read it and arrived at that conclusion.
There is no doubt that many will conclude the worst of all possible contents of anything written by the pope or any pope without even bothering to read it. I seriously doubt, based upon your highly biased posting history that you are any not among them.
lol. I bought it and I read it. The internet is great for a lot of things, but they've got this new invention where you can actually underline words and highlight passages. And it's portable and requires no electricity nor wii fi. It fits in your pocket and it never changes. What it says one day is the same thing it says the next day. It can't be re-edited or redacted or erased on someone's whim or deceit. It is set in stone for all time. It says what it says.
And it only cost $7.
I would encourage you to do the same thing. You say you are a conservative. Let's see what you think about Ratzinger's appeal for a "global authority" to run everything in our lives, including our government.
I heart you.
ROTFL! I was among the first FReepers to read (in full), and post direct excerpts from, the official Vatican.va-hosted English translation of Caritas in veritate. The initial Catholic reaction to my posts was that I was using a suspect/poor/faulty translation, because the Catholics identified it as socialism, too. They later changed their tune when they saw that it came from the Pope, and now they only claim that atheistic socialism is bad.