The release of the much-awaited climate message puts a trigger on a series of events that were more than a year in the planning.
I think you FR Catholics are slow to get it...'They' are the Catholic religion, not you guys...You've been telling us how 'rogue' this pope is...He's not rogue at all...He is what the Catholic religion chose as its leader they they are as happy as could be that your pope thinks the same way they do...
The problem with that is that if they admit that what the pope and the hierarchy is is real Catholicism, it puts those who oppose it and are calling for a return of the RCC to its roots, in the category of the Reformers some 500 years ago.
They may not be that slow to get it as reluctant (or unwilling) to admit it, as it would then justify OUR position. IOW, they'd have to admit that the Reformation was correct.