Some initial reactions to Laudato Si

I haven't had a chance to read Laudato Si yet, but a group of my colleagues at UST (including my co-director at the Murphy Institute, Billy Junker) just had a conference on these issues here last week, and had this to say in today's local paper.  Their conference included a keynote by John Allen, in which he offered some of the predictions and cautions about likely reactions to the encyclical that appeared in this column of his (he calls it "getting ahead of the spin").  Today's column offers an informative historical survey of the evolution of Church thought on these issues.