The encyclical seems to pretend a LOT of things.
Such an example would be quite in keeping with such extensive pages of pretense.
You wrote:
“The encyclical seems to pretend a LOT of things.”
Christian hope is not pretending. Protestants, whose sectarian nonsense is filled with presmption rather than hope, however, might see it that way.
“Such an example would be quite in keeping with such extensive pages of pretense.”
The pretense is your assumption that you actually know better based on your own hatred of the Catholic Church.