I’ve read through the encyclical three times and outlined it, so tomorrow I have WORK to do, made infinitely more complicated by the sick baby, who is no shape to go to the sitter’s tomorrow. Bless him, Michael is staying home to help out while I try to do this. It’s a very lucid, fluid piece, as we’ve come to expect from our Pope, but the challenge of what I have to do with it  is still – a challenge. So we’ll see. Thoughts to follow, as a means of warm-up.

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