If you read the whole thing, he talks, too, about the limits of the top-down approach. He talks about the culture-of-death poisons manipulatively inherent in so many world organizations. The encyclical is not the gift to the Left the media would have you believe. Once again, the Vatican lost the spin war. But what they’re saying it is isn’t quite it.

For more, see George Weigel and Kishore Jayabalan.