(Steven Hayward) About Laudato Si, the Pope's encyclical on the environment, some preliminary observations: First, although "encyclical" bears some etymological relation to "encyclopedia," Laudate Si is either too short to be considered an adequate treatment of the wide range of concrete issues and philosophical themes it treats, or too long because it tries to do too much but does it poorly. It raises specific scientific controversies it would have been better to
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