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.
!!WRONG!!
As eternity will show.
I have no hatred of any authentically Christian organization . . . even wholesale-in-error ones.
I do hate what God hates . . .
e.g. idolatry . . .
deception . . .
hero worship . . .
putting things other than God first.
SUBSTITUTING RITUAL, SHAM AND PRETENSE for RELATIONSHIP.
. . .