Thank God for The Rt Rev’d Dr Peter Forster, Bishop of Chester, and lay
Roman Catholic Bernard Donoughue, who, together, have issued the most
comprehensive ecumenical rebuttal toLaudato Si, the second encyclical
penned by Pope Francis.
The Papal Encyclical – A critical Christian
response is published by The Global Warming Policy
Foundation, though the authors make clear that: “Our thoughts are offered in a
personal capacity, and do not represent GWPF as a whole.” So here we have the
cogent thoughts of a senior Anglican bishop on the environment, global warming,
market capitalism and global poverty (though it isn’t made clear why the
monograph is entitle ‘The Papal Encyclical‘, since there have been more
than a hundred of them [in the modern form], and the definite article may be
properly apportioned only until Pope Francis issues his next encyclical, after
which Laudato Si will simply become another epistle of
indefinite object [unless, of course, it becomes so notorious as to go down in
history as The papal enclyclical, but that seems most
unlikely). Thomas Cranmer's Blog.
