Some Catholics insist that both
men are heretics, to be suffered within the community only if they mute their
voices; others say that they represent more
authentic versions
of the faith than the various beliefs and practices they are challenging, and that it is the institution rather than the individual that is heretical.
Those
of us who discuss
man - made climate change are cast as elitists by people who happily embrace the claims
of Lord Monckton, Lord Lawson or thinktanks funded by ExxonMobil or the Koch brothers: now the
authentic voices of the working class.