“It seems that some FReepers have fallen for the spin...”
Pyro, I can’t speak for the article, but the Pope is clearly calling for a true world political authority (with teeth) that’s mission is to redistribute wealth. That’s not spin. That’s fact.
Yes, but as I noted on another thread, it’s guided by subsidiarity. The author of the article I posted from NewsBusters made the same point, and quoted from the Catechism as to the anti-collective nature of subsidiarity.
You already clicked on the Newsbusters link? Great. Essential reading. And here’s more: the ever-informed Fr. Fessio writing for Zenit about the encyclical:
http://www.zenit.org/article-26400?l=english