Brief on Pope Francis encyclical Laudato Si — Praise Be: On the Care for our Common Home.

It’s out.

At 4 AM Eastern Time, or noon in Rome, Pope Francis officially released his newest encyclical titled Laudato Si — Praise Be: On the Care for our Common Home.b

First — here is a link to the document itself: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

In case the Vatican website is down (as it was earlier), here is another link to the document:http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/encyclical-letter-laudato-si-holy-father-francis-c

We continue to digest the document as we write, and thus cannot possibly comment on all that it contains. It’s long — 184 pages. As the media is already reporting, it covers a broad set of issues including many controversial conclusions and proposals on climate change, global warming, fossil fuels and the need for new international political bodies to act.

Read more at CatholicVote:  http://www.catholicvote.org/praise-be/