Posted on 12/30/2014 4:14:11 PM PST by NYer
Investor’s Business Daily notes the stark chilling nature of Pope’s upcoming climate push. It’s anything but Catholic.
Pope Francis' recent leftist statements should trouble Catholics and non-Catholics alike, but even more disturbing are the pope's latest declarations on the dramatic action needed to fight climate change.
The Vatican apparently now has been infiltrated by followers of a radical green movement that is, at its core, anti-Christian, anti-people, anti-poor and anti-development. The basic tenets of Catholicism — the sanctity of human life and the value of all souls — are detested by the modern pagan environmentalists who worship the created, but not the creator.
At its core, Big Green believes that too many human beings are the basic global problem. People, according to this view, are resource destroyers. Climate change, they say, is due to the overpopulation of Mother Earth.
The head of the Catholic Church should denounce — not praise — such anti-human thinking. It violates Pope John Paul II's famous letter reminding us that creative human beings are a resource, not a curse.
The writer gives Pope Francis points for unwitting ignorance. That is speculation.
Instead, the pope unwittingly has linked arms with the people who have provided finance, intellectual credibility and applause for radical and immoral population-control policies including eugenics, millions of forced abortions and sterilizations, and one-child policies, all in the name of "saving the planet."
Francis is reportedly preparing a lengthy encyclical message for early 2015 to the world's 1.2 billion Catholics on the need for decisive action on climate change. He may even be preparing a U.N. speech on the topic.
Earlier this year, he said: "The monopolizing of lands, deforestation, the appropriation of water, inadequate agro-toxics are some of the evils that tear man from the land of his birth. Climate change, the loss of biodiversity and deforestation are already showing their devastating effects in the great cataclysms we witness."
The science behind this is bunk. As we've documented repeatedly, there is no scientific basis for the claims that the planet has been hit with more severe weather events over the last decade or that we are witnessing "great cataclysms" above the historical norm.
Since climate change is essentially a fraud, someone must inevitably get the short end and be tricked. This is the essence of Socialism. It’s just simple oppression imposed in the name of justice and it has nothing to do with the charitable teachings of Jesus and his Church.
What climate-change action will the Vatican endorse? Almost all the leading anti-climate-change initiatives endorsed by the Green Movement — cap and trade, carbon taxes, regulations against using abundant fossil fuels — are merely regressive taxes that hurt the poor the most.
What is the ethical and moral basis for going to poor villages and telling those living at subsistence levels that they have an obligation to save the planet by staying poor and using less energy? Cheap and affordable electric power is the best antidote for extreme poverty, disease, malnutrition and human deprivation. It should be celebrated.
Ironically, the pope in separate declarations has spoken out about the immorality of "income and wealth inequality" and "trickle-down economics." The radical climate change agenda he has made peace with would make the poor poorer and income inequality worse.
It’s hard to say what leads elitists and leftists to support lies and government abuse. Is it blindness, is it malice, or a little of both? Such is the nature of sin.
Faithful Catholic pundits will say these are areas of ‘prudential judgment’ and outside the realm of doctrine. That’s not true. Prudential judgment must be prudent, not cruel and unjust. If the climate agenda was kind, just, or even prudent, then it would also be Catholic.
Follow the money trail!
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It’s not my role to say what is an isn’t Catholic, but if I start to have difficulty distinguishing Al Gore and Pope Francis by their public pronouncements, well...
The holy father sounds like a peronista.
sad...but I think he has dementia.....and delusions.
Eco-profiteering. That’s what global warming/climate change is all about. What’s in it for him?
It’s enough to piss off the Pope.
ANYONE who thinks they can change the CLIMATE is Spitting in GOD’S Face!!! ONLY GOD can change the CLIMATE.....Man can help to stop pollution, but certainly NOT the CLIMATE!! HUBRIS PERSONIFIED!!! Typical Jesuit....they think they are smarter than GOD!!
No dementia...Jesuitia......WORSE!
The smoke of Satan has entered the sanctuary.
The Gospel according to Karl Marx.
ear Pope.....THOUSANDS of CATHOLICS are being KILLED and DISPLACED in MUSLIM countries......THAT’S YOUR JOB, NOT Climate “change”!!
False pope...it happens.
Plainly he’s been spending too much time with His All-Holiness Bartholomew I of Constantinople (or “Black Bart” as our traditionalists call him). The current EP has been “green” for years — think because environmentalism is the one moderately live political issue in which dabbling his doesn’t run afoul of the sensibilities of the Turkish Republic.
The Catholic Church is a worldwide organisation governed from its own territory in Rome. Therefore the focus is going to be on looking after all of its flock, many of which are in developing nations. Liberation theology got its start in this organization.
The rock star pope strikes again.
Jesuits haven't been Catholic for decades.
H’mmmm will we see a resumption of the sale of indulgences for supporting the communist lead environmental movement?
Perhaps Benedict XVI needs to return.
I was at a Kateri Conference up in Spokane years ago. It was on the Gonzaga campus. I went to the religious section of the bookstore. The first book I picked up was "God - our Father and our Mother" I knew they were lost forever.
Guess we can forget about Pope and Change.
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