Pope Francis’s encyclical “On Care for Out Common Home” is really three very different documents: 1) A modern liberal environmental screed full of technical errors and unscientific conclusions 2) A brilliantly insightful view of how man and nature should interact 3) A flawed set of proposals on how to solve man’s current brokenness Catholics, and people of good will, recognize that the Pope has a special authority on matters related to morality and theology but not on matters of prudential judgment. That means that Catholics need to accept the encyclical’s call for us to be good stewards of the planet and to help the poor but it does not mean that we must embrace the specific worldly solutions the Pope presents. As Pope Francis himself says: On many concrete questions, the Church has no reason to offer a definitive opinion; she knows that honest debate must be encouraged among experts, while respecting divergent...(Read Full Article)