You can come out swinging at the Pope, or you can argue against him gently. So far as official Church doctrine is concerned they are both the same thing, as he cannot be “wrong”.
That is obviously absurd, so I’d elect to take the Donald Trump approach. Come out swinging and let the chips fall where they may.
It’s a major reason we are now hemorrhaging membership to Evangelical churches.
I like your style. The times call for it! Honesty, without ambiguity and drivel, is a rare commodity.
I'm sorry, dear Buckeye, but the entire theme of my analysis was that this is not the case.
Pope Francis himself repeated and explicitly disavowed the proposition that this is a binding encyclical. He's essentially invented a new thing: the "encyclical as dialogue platform".