Posted on 01/04/2015 3:14:16 PM PST by BlatherNaut
Well, His Holiness Pope Francis has not yet issued his encyclical on the environment, but already it is attracting a great deal of attention. Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith makes a good case in his article suggesting that such an encyclical is perhaps not such a great idea. I'm with him on that, but of course there are various interests and various groups for whom such an encyclical will most likely be a 'godsend'.
During this post, I am going to be as balanced and level-headed as a conspiracy theorist fruit-cake can be, but I am confident that within the next year, readers of this blog may be joining me in my unshakable feeling that there is something going on in Rome today that only makes sense in accepting the possibility that there is a 'hidden hand' at work.
Why Pope Francis has got non-Catholic conspiracy theorists thinking
I suggested to a member of the Catholic clergy recently that Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment would give conspiracy theorists an irresistible bone to chew on. Today, I discovered on Prison Planet that His Holiness now has prominent conspiracy theorist, freedom-fighter and very loud man, Alex Jones, on his case and this, I predict, will run and run. Intervention into world politics on climate change will not just cast Pope Francis as a man clearly identifiable as of the political left-wing', but as a divisive figure who divides world opinion on a secular matter when such a position was not demanded of him in his role as Successor of St Peter.
In his usual brash way, Alex Jones observes, as a non-Catholic, the media's love affair with Pope Francis as something deeply unsettling and unusual. This is a feeling now well known to Catholics loyal to the See of Peter. When the Pope is lauded by the secular world, there is something wrong.
The idea that with the election of Pope Francis, a secretive and deeply sinister power group now has the Catholic Church 'in the bag' will only be enhanced by news of a Papal encyclical on the environment and the attending 'intervention' that Pope Francis hopes to make at the UN Climate meeting in Paris this year.
Should it receive the benediction of Pope Francis, the international climate change movement will receive a huge public boost even though the science on the issue of man-made climate change is far from settled. That there are plenty of people for whom the climate change agenda is a gigantic scam that seeks to persuade mankind that he is ultimately responsible for the vicissitudes of nature might not worry Pope Francis, but should he decide to embrace the international climate change dogmas, he will be met with great resistance from many people who will believe that the Catholic Church has exchanged a group of supernatural beliefs for a man-made natural myth.
And Alex Jones is by no means alone in his passionate belief that behind the ecological sustainability agenda hides something deeply tyrannical. You can decide for yourself whether such a threat to freedom exists, but there is no doubt that many believe it. For that reason, it may not be so wise for His Holiness to intervene on the side of those pushing for the climate deal of the century. Why? Because many people will begin to believe that the Catholic Church - from having once been an immovable fortress against the global population controllers envisaged by those who have read UN's Agenda 21 - will emerge as the spiritual NGO with a charismatic leader that will tip the balance in favour of everything She has always stood against.
Popeulation Control and Sustainable Devilopment
In fact, it cannot be underestimated just how extraordinarily divisive such an intervention will be, not just with regard to those who are not members of the Catholic Church, but those who are. Such an intervention supporting a new 'climate deal' would by virtue of his Office sign up the Catholic Church to what many conceive to be an elaborate tax-revenue fraud that impoverishes already impoverished third world nations.
Sensible priests, sensible bishops, sensible laity and even a prominent Cardinal who has publicly rejected much of the climate change agenda on the record, will be deeply antagonised by the political interference of this Pope not just because this is a wholly unnecessary intervention into politics but because it is difficult to distinguish between the major protagonists in the climate change agenda and the population control enthusiasts who are sworn enemies of the Catholic Church. These may henceforth consider a Pope who feels we shouldn't "obsess" about abortion and homosexuality a natural and hugely influential ally of epic, perhaps 'biblical', proportions.
The leading protagonists orchestrating the Culture of Death will quite happily embrace a Catholic Church that has, due to a 'climate emergency' prostituted itself to an inhuman agenda condemned by Francis's predecessors, and worry little should the Supreme Pontiff, from time to time, make a remark condemning abortion and euthanasia because, after all, if a Pope didn't say those things from time to time, you'd be forgiven for wondering whether he was a Pope at all. The grievance caused by any such comments would be transcended by the great cause of their rejoicing - that the Catholic Church had signed up to the falsification of science in the creation of a new, global, naturalist religion in which some form of human sacrifice is considered a 'necessary evil'.
Alex Jones, loved and loathed as he is, is absolutely right to suggest that within the small print of the sustainable development manifesto for what would well emerge as a kind of global policing of environmental practices is completely incompatible with Catholic teaching because the entire philosophy of reducing climate emissions involves artificial contraception, sterilisation, abortion and a host of moral and spiritual evils pioneered by a global elite. One need only do a quick Google search on Agenda 21, the weighty document outlining a global strategy for 'sustainable development' to find reams of information about the kind of tyrannical global eco-government that could be waiting in the wings should nations come to an accord over them.
Is Pope Francis going to become just another 'world leader' who travels the globe in a jet while telling the plebs to reduce their carbon footprint? I do hope not. I do pray not.
From all evil, O Lord, deliver us.
Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men.
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion."
The Pope, the UN, and Alex Jones. How were Dan Akroyd and Randy Quaid left out?
I just reread Genesis 1. God created the earth and all the creatures on it. Man cannot change God’s plan. This earth will be here until God decides otherwise.
I agree with Augustine since he was such a perfect example of ignorance.
Yes indeed, God’s perfect Will RULES.
Ignorant about what? Do you want to give us a specific example from what was posted.
...and that’s why leftists have a deep, vile hatred of God and anything associated with Him.
Yes, indeed.
Gives me great JOY and laughter when I think of how so many Powers have tried, their dead, God lives and We win.
Anyone who believes Catholic doctrine is entirely ignorant of Scripture and willing to believe pagan lies.
“For God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the thing that are mighty…that no flesh should glory in His presence.” I Cor. I: 27, 29
The Pope remains silent, the media spins.
Anyone who believes that Catholic doctrine is ignorant of Scripture is willing to believe pagan liars.
Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky.
Stormy weather.
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps rainin' all the time.
Life is bare, gloom and mis'ry everywhere.
Stormy weather.
Just can't get my poor self together.
I'm weary all the time, the time.
So weary all the time.
When he went away
The blues walked in and met me.
If he stays away, old rockin' chair will get me.
All I do is pray, the Lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more.
Can't go on, ev'rything I had is gone.
Stormy weather.
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps rainin' all the time.
Keeps rainin' all the time.
When he went away
The blues walked in and met me.
If he stays away, old rockin' chair will get me.
All I do is pray, the Lord above will let me Walk in the sun once more
Can't go on, ev'rything I had is gone.
Stormy weather.
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps rainin' all the time.
Keeps rainin' all the time.
True enough.
Thank you.
I’m not sure you got your point across....perhaps you should tell us how you really feel about Catholicism.
If you don’t mind my asking do you attend a church?
BOY, did you hit the nail on the head: BINGO!
The lamestream media have ALWAYS loathed, deplored, execrated, detested, abominated, hated, despised, abhorred and REALLY disliked Catholics and Evangelicals and NEVER, ever have missed, miss or WILL miss ANY opportunity to say UNTRUE and NASTY things about them.
Modernists speak Catholic from time to time (on purpose). Catholics speak Catholic all of the time.
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