Mark Mallet has a good article up on this and plans to write more. He is always balanced and faithful to the Teaching Magisterium when writing. Here’s an excerpt of his post yesterday:
“NOT since Humanae Vitae has there perhaps been an encyclical letter that has generated more angst, more concern, more anticipation than Laudato si’. I have printed it off and will spend the weekend reading and meditating upon it.
I sensed the Lord saying that the first thing He wants us to do with this teaching is to examine our own conscience. Put aside judgments, put aside one’s own filters, and let the word speak to your heart. And in this regard, it is a “word” from the mind of Christ. For Jesus said to the Apostles, and thus, their successors:
Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me. (Luke 10:16)
Here too, we must set aside Peter, “the man”, and listen to Peter, “the office.” If you flip to the back of the encyclical, you will see just under 180 footnotes of references to several popes, the Catechism, the Second Vatican Council, and other magisterial statements. This in itself is a witness to the perennial voice of the Church that is an unfolding echo from the first Peter whom Jesus commanded to “feed my sheep.” [1] It is this voice that builds upon its predecessors all the way back to Christ himself that sets the Catholic Church apart from every single denomination in the world. It is this “Living Tradition”, founded upon the rock of Peter, that itself causes me to love and worship Christ more than ever. Because our faith is not dependent upon mere men, but the Divine Man, Jesus Christ, who builds His Church upon the Office of Peter that He established. [2]”
http://www.markmallett.com/blog/listening-to-christ
....”I sensed the Lord saying that the first thing He wants us to do with this teaching is to examine our own conscience. Put aside judgments, put aside one’s own filters,”.....
That’s about the same routine you’ll find in the New Age Movement and the Emergient Church....”clear your mind”...
God never tells us to clear our minds or not use the good judgement he’s equipped us with...nor to put aside common sense. We are Called to make right judgments.
The office all should be paying attention to is the office Of Jesus Christ alone...not the Pope who is leading your church into darkness....