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Encyclical

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Pope?

Brian K. Noe · June 29, 2015 ·

Those who profit from what harms the earth have to keep the poor out of sight. They have trouble enough fighting off the scientific, economic, and political arguments against bastioned privilege. Bringing basic morality to the fore could be fatal to them. That is why they are mounting such a public pre-emptive strike against the encyclical before it even appears. They must not only discredit the pope’s words (whatever they turn out to be), they must block them, ridicule them, destroy them.

Read More: Who’s Afraid of Pope Francis? by Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Catholic, Encyclical, Environment, Garry Wills, Laudato si', Pope Francis

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