Anticipating WPFMTS Syndrome | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: To state a few counter-objections and their responses, the Pope is not an expert in scientific questions, indeed the more the Holy See relies on science the bigger the chance for error, whether this be how the cosmos operates, the mysteries of embryology or climate science. These things must be taken in flux by the scientific community, but he can and must deal with the social consequences. He can most definitely teach on population control and eugenics - not from fetishizing blastocysts, which are not yet moral objects, but to affirm the rights of people, especially poor people of color, to procreate as they see fit. Criticizing the free market response to warming is also quite alright with me - although any act by a capitalist individually has little impact on the whole of the issue, much as we all like to pillory the Brothers Koch and China.
The place to criticize capitalism is in how its benefits are uneven or absent for people who work or cannot work and live in those areas prone to change, whether that be Bangladesh or the lower 9th ward of New Orleans. Most importantly, the Church can call for governmental action, and the funds to pay for it, to make sure these people are moved with opportunity where they seek refuge and the condemned land kept fallow. As for the national rights of all concerned - that is a political, not a moral question. The Holy See is a sovereign state as well. It can speak as one among the community of nations. On the moral authority, recognizing current and past scientific errors would certainly make the world take notice and would enhance the authority of the document.
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