The word "encyclical" is correct and well written in English
It is typically used to refer to a formal letter or document issued by the Pope to address issues of doctrine or moral guidance.
Example: "The Pope's latest encyclical emphasizes the importance of environmental stewardship."
Alternatives: "papal letter" or "official document."
The lobbying push underlines the sensitivity surrounding Pope Francis's highly anticipated encyclical on the environment, whose aim will be to frame the climate change issue as a moral imperative.
Pope Francis is shortly to publish his encyclical on the environment, which could make uncomfortable reading for many in the oil and gas industry.
The encyclical is expected to be released in June or July, and Pope Francis is expected to use a planned address before the United Nations in September to discuss the statement.
Prepared remarks on climate planned for the weekend didn't make waves, but there's no doubt his encyclical on the environment – whether or not it explicitly mentions global warming – will do when it lands in June.
While it is not yet clear exactly what the encyclical will say, Pope Francis has been an outspoken advocate for action on the issue.
His predecessor, Pius XI, in his encyclical "Mit brennender Sorge" (With Burning Anxiety) of 1937, had condemned in the most general terms the excesses of the Nazi regime.
Doubtless his encyclical will refer to his name-sake and inspiration, Francis of Assisi, who was famous for his bond with animals and with the physical world; but to be convincing, he will have to find a reading of the medieval saint which is tough-minded rather than sentimental.
Summed up like that, the central message of a keenly awaited papal pronouncement on the social and economic woes of the world may sound like a statement of the obvious.But despite some lapses into trendy jargon, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), a 144-page encyclical issued by Pope Benedict XVI on July 7th, is certainly not a banal or trivial document.
Pacelli doubtless also felt the anti-Judaism of his Church: a prejudice so routine and so long established that a lost encyclical "against" racism, drafted just before the war, continued to assert that the Jews had reaped "worldly and spiritual ruin" from the killing of Christ.
They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity.
Father Lombardi could not say what Benedict's title would be, nor how Christ's vicar on earth should be addressed in retirement.Though stubbornly conservative in many respects, Benedict is also a radical (as displayed in his encyclical of 2005 on the theology of love).
