I see the climate change uproar as an enormous red herring and its timing is......er.......interesting, shall we say.
I thought the supposed leak and the Vatican’s reaction to it - getting rid of the generally conservative writer who wasn’t even the one to publish it, but simply said a few bland words of introduction at the request of the editor - was also “interesting.”
There have supposedly been copies of it circulating throughout Rome for some time now and many people had already seen and “leaked” it. I think these copies were released probably to keep commentators off balance.
Their technique seems to be to keep everything sloshing back and forth by releasing lots of “unofficial” or “preliminary” documents, lots of things where they can judge the reaction and then come forward with plausible deniability if it looks too bad and then say exactly the same unacceptable thing elsewhere in a different forum and different format. This prevents any opposition from consolidating, because everything is in a constant state of flux...and also because the Pope has proved that he’s perfectly willing to silence or get rid of anyone he thinks might provide credible resistance.