Posted on 06/08/2015 5:43:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
There has not been this kind of palace intrigue at the Vatican since the 1500s. Foreign potentates are making a power grab, trying to seize the moral authority of the papacy for their own, secular ends. Like modern-day courtiers, lay and clerical aides to Pope Francis are slyly assisting these foreign princes from the United Nations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other such non-friends of Catholicism. In public comments, for months, officials such as Jeffrey Sachs and Ban Ki Moon from the UN, and lay leaders such as Margaret Archer at the Vatican, have been telling the public the pope believes it is time for radical regulatory action on the environment.
The pope’s forthcoming encyclical, they say, will come down hard on the wicked polluters, and his moral clarion call will be further articulated in public addresses to the U.S. Congress and UN General Assembly this fall. Stifling, universal environmental regulations will have the papal imprimatur. If God is with the Left, who can be against them, right?
Wrong. The façade the coconspirators built so cleverly has been cracking in recent days. The pope last week used his official Catholic News Agency to leak word of the title of his forthcoming encyclical and provide a rough outline of his thinking on the environment, or, as he puts it, ecology. The forthcoming encyclical will be called Laudato Sii, which in Italian means “Praised Be You,” and it borrows the wording of its title from a poem by St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology, called “Brother Fire, Sister Moon, and Mother Earth.”
The secular Left’s attempted hijacking of the pope’s environmental encyclical is clearly failing. Instead of Pope “Che”Guevara, their hoped-for environmental revolutionary, the Left is being forced to see the real Pope Francis, apparently for the first time.
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Thanks for this. Just of note though, I believe the official release will be June 18th. So any differences between what you’ve posted here and what is released June 18, the latter should prevail. (But it’s probably the same). Thanks again.
“How many divisions does the Pope have?”
“encyclical”
It’s what I call “P-mail”
“Brother Fire, Sister Moon, and Mother Earth.” words of idolatry, if this the worst of it, I can deal with it.
The fact that he has been meeting with these secular organizations in regarding a church document is still very alarming.
If he actually issues that Global Warming Encyclical this will have to be retracted.
“Brother Fire, Sister Moon, and Mother Earth.”
I believe that’s the title of a song by the 12th century friar. The Cliff Notes version is that it is a song of praise to God for all He has created. I don’t think it gives any sense that the sun, moon or earth are ‘beings’ due any worship, which would, of course, be idolatry.
Several papal elections in the last century were hailed as Social Justice Popes finally coming to force the Church into the New Century. John Paul (I) made the socialists ecstatic because he really had a history of socialist actions and pronouncements. He was pope for a month. Others may have bee, indeed, “modernists” who believed that the Church had to get with the times but there is a transformation in that election. Things do not look the same from the papal balcony as they do from insulated individual bishoprics.
Enough to collapse the old Soviet Union along with "Saint Reagan and Saint Thatcher."
Unfortunately our present President has allowed that snake to arise again in the form of Vladimir Putin.
"Most High, all-powerful, all-good Lord, All praise is Yours, all glory, all honour and all blessings."
Or maybe this is what you found offensive?
"To you alone, Most High, do they belong, and no mortal lips are worthy to pronounce Your Name."
You seems unaware of the customs of Christian devotional poetry, going all the way back to the Bible, in which God's creatures --- the created elements of the Universe ---are addressed, honored for their excellence, and bidden to praise the Lord their Creator.
You might want to consult Psalm 19 and Psalm 96 to see how created things are personified, praised, and called forth to rejoice. Here is the full text of St. Francis' excellent "psalm."
Most High, all-powerful, all-good Lord, Most High, |
It is kind of you to help fellow FReepers who struggle with reading comprehension.
Not being Catholic, I don’t follow the Pope drama particularly closely (and I’m not sure where the current Pope actually stands on a number of issues) - but one thing that is crystal clear is that there are a large number of entities that are quite diligent in pre-stating in a very twisted manner what he says...with a chorus of echoing mouthpieces broadcasting those twists all over the media.
“....there are a large number of entities that are quite diligent in pre-stating in a very twisted manner what he says...with a chorus of echoing mouthpieces broadcasting those twists all over the media.”
The MSM doing their thing - they don’t report, they decide.
I really respect your opinion on this matter. There are any number of people both Catholic and not, who jump on everything the media reports without critically analyzing what was actually said or written.
Nope, can you stop with the strawman defense?
You said Francis of Assisi's canticle was 'idolatry.' I quoted the whole thing to show that it is not. Only God is being adored in this canticle.
“You said Francis of Assisi’s canticle was ‘idolatry.’”
No I didn’t
These are the words of S. Francis' Canticle. They are not idolatry. Idolatry means adoring some being other than the One True God. Francis makes it clear he is adoring God alone.
these words out of context, are idolatry, just because the words are used in another context doesn’t excuse them.
Fire is not a being, neither is the Moon, neither is the Earth. They aren’t alive, they don’t have free will, they are inanimate objects and simple chemical reactions.
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