Is Leo's new encyclical completing Francis's Fratelli Tutti & finishing "the Catholic Church...infiltra[tion] by the Religion of Humanity...[where] humanity is an abstraction that is not experienced"?
Leo XIV’s new encyclical makes Christ equivalent to mere human beings A first look at Pope Leo's first encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas.' Pope Leo XIV Google AI: The philosophical critique here sharply contrasts vertical, theological love (God-oriented charity) with horizontal, secularized empathy (compassion). It draws from the political thought of Pierre Manent and the late Cardinal George Pell, asserting that modern "compassion" risks dissolving particular citizenship and religious communion into a generic, unlivable " religion of humanity." The Shift from Charity to "Compassion" The prompt echoes the late Cardinal George Pell, who frequently warned that progressive contemporary dialogue often relies on modern sociological or ideological jargon rather than traditional Christian virtues. In this view, "compassion" tends to break people into categorized groups (such as oppressors and oppressed), functioning as a tool of socio-politi...