Those who have eyes to see ...
Very true. And you don't seem to "see" that the Pope, a spiritual leader, has just meddled in temporal political affairs in a way so radical that no other Vatican document I can think of compares. It's astonishing. Simply amazing.
As I've said in earlier posts, I'm a cradle Catholic with clergy in the family. I cut my teeth on tales of Catholicism and spent many years in Catholic schools. So I'm not coming at this from a Catholic bashing perspective, like several others on the thread.
But no matter how gently I may want to deal with the Catholic faith, no amount of spin or denial can alter the Pope's words in this historic, radical Encyclical. It was released only seven days ago. I predict quite seriously that the uproar around it will grow so intense he'll have to alter it himself and remove the offending passages.