Maybe a crazy idea, but if the goal is for encyclicals to be read widely, I would have broken this down into two or three separate encyclicals. Rerum Novarum is 63 paragraphs. This is 245 paragraphs, a notable climbdown from Fratelli Tutti's 287! I don't think an encyclical can properly treat a condemnation of just war doctrine AND a condemnation of slavery while ALSO talking about (alleged) Artificial Intelligence. Just publish three with cross-references.
I’ve spent all morning grousing about wanting to read the new encyclical while secretly hoping I could just read the Pillar summary
Maybe a crazy idea, but if the goal is for encyclicals to be read widely, I would have broken this down into two or three separate encyclicals. Rerum Novarum is 63 paragraphs. This is 245 paragraphs, a notable climbdown from Fratelli Tutti's 287! I don't think an encyclical can properly treat a condemnation of just war doctrine AND a condemnation of slavery while ALSO talking about (alleged) Artificial Intelligence. Just publish three with cross-references.
Thanks for the guide! Looks like a neutral, paragraph by paragraph rundown.