“Heinous” to violate Vatican embargo?

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Italian magazine publishes leaked version of pope’s eco-encyclical | Crux.

A Vatican official, speaking to Bloomberg News on Monday, called publishing the document before Thursday a “heinous act,” and various clergy urged media organizations to respect the official embargo date.

That’s a bit much. If he were redefining the Trinity and they beat the embargo, it would be one thing. But the endorsement of man-made global warming by a chemistry major? Please.

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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