Mark O’Malley’s find is very interesting and reveals a lot about the machinations of Vatican politics. I wish you had addressed your comments to that and not diverted this thread with another bout of “the Pope is the Anti-Christ pawn of the New World Order.”
The problem is that there are many warring forces in the Vatican, some of which probably are pawns of the New World Order who would be perfectly happy to announce that Obama is their new Pope. Heck, Kathleen Kennedy is already raving that he’s “more Catholic” than the Pope, why not?
On the whole, the encyclical has some positive points; much of the rest of it is just the bureaucratic vaporing of the Peace and Justice committee that wrote it. In fact, in the original Italian, even this paragraph 67 was the usual vague nonsense. It’s only the English version, so far, that seems to have this disturbing phrase in it.
I think you make some valid points.
Sadly, none of them deal with my points.