How Not To Read An Encyclical

Mark Shea explains why we shouldn't depend on journalists to explain what the Pope wrote:

Jounalists: Our Moral and Intellectual Superiors. A reader writes:

I don't know, this just strikes me as odd. This site at CNN is headlined, "Pope Challenges Capitalism Ahead of G-8". The thing is that I have the encyclical on a Word Doc and when I do a word search of the entire thing, "Capitalism" never comes up.

My reader fails to appreciate the sport of encyclical reading.

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