I’ve been reading it. It is far too easy to make global judgements from selected sections. The Breitbart article is pretty much a drive-by piece.
One thing that strikes me as I read, more than anything else, is the huge departure in depth and scholarship from Francis’ two predecessors -Sort of disappointing.
“One thing that strikes me as I read, more than anything else, is the huge departure in depth and scholarship from Francis’ two predecessors -Sort of disappointing.”
I’ve concluded Francis just isn’t very smart.
“By elevating feeling over thought, by making compassion the measure of all things, the Pope was able to evade the complexities of the situation, in effect indulging in one of the characteristic vices of our time, moral exhibitionism, which is the espousal of generous sentiment without the pain of having to think of the costs to other people of the implied (but unstated) morally-appropriate policy. This imprecision allowed him to evade the vexed question as to exactly how many of the suffering of Africa, and elsewhere, Europe was supposed to admit and subsidize (and by Europe I mean, of course, the European taxpayer, who might have problems of his own).”