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Here is a cut & paste of a comment on the article.

“Sorry to disappoint, but this document doesn’t exist and isn’t going to pass as an Encyclical, or any kind of official document. It’s not even close to “Fratelli Tutti”, which for some reason this Italian publication has no familiarity with. That DOES exist and IS an Encyclical, it can be viewed online by anyone. Its primary theme, among others, is ecology.

This article reads like an undergrad paper from a philosophy student who read way too much Teilhard de Chardin, threw in some Hermeticism, a bit of Biology 101, and called it a day. He doesn’t even get Chardin right. Because Chardin doesn’t view Christ as just the top of a hierarchy of beings, he is the conduit for the “recapitulation” (a highly technical word) of all creation in himself.

Also, as a theologian I am telling you right now that a document like this would be… remarkably “contra fontes”. Christians take very seriously the Incarnation of Christ, and if the Pope made a document which at face value denies the First Chapter of the Gospel of John (i.e., “The Word became Flesh, and dwelt among us”), it would be a serious problem, theologically.

It’s always helpful when reading Italian articles about Vatican subjects to know the difference between a “wish” and a “fact”. They conflate them often. It wasn’t too long ago that we had a series of “interviews” with Francis with a veteran Italian journalist who claimed the Pope told him hell wasn’t real, God wasn’t real, etc. etc. Its clickbait.”