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Canon law currently lacks provisions for when a pope is temporarily or permanently incapacitated. The question has arisen in various forms in the past century.

The Catholic Thing website As a Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy in a Catholic university, I find fascinating the encyclical’s use of the language throughout of “social friendship” ( amistad social, in Spanish), rather than the familiar “social justice.” There is not a single mention of “social friendship” in the Catechism that I could find, or the Compendium of Catholic Social Doctrine. Here if anywhere in the encyclical is the significant development of the tradition of social thought. Justice is insufficient for social unity, because of its emphasis on impartiality...