Posted on 04/26/2015 8:52:02 AM PDT by ebb tide
How bad will the upcoming Papal encyclical on the environment be? Maybe this bad:
As the world celebrates Earth Day on Wednesday, Pope Francis is planning to use one of the highest forms of papal expression an encyclical to promote climate action to save the planet as a moral and religious imperative.
In recent weeks, Vatican officials have outlined what the document will say and are choreographing its release perhaps as early as June for maximum global impact beyond the Roman Catholic Churchs 1.2 billion members.
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, who chairs a panel dealing with environmental issues for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the encyclical has gone to the translators, so its at the end of its birthing process.
First on the promotional agenda is an April 28 Vatican conference where United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon will be a keynote speaker. The goal is to advance the morality argument that is a theme of the encyclical.
Then on successive days beginning Sept. 23, the pope will visit the White House, address a joint session of Congress the first pontiff to do so and address the U.N. General Assembly at the beginning of a summit on sustainable development.
The timing of the encyclical is significant, Cardinal Peter Turkson told a university audience in Ireland last month. 2015 is a critical year for humanity. The coming 10 months are crucial.
The Ghanian cardinal, who heads the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and who helped draft the encyclical, said all events lead to Paris in December, when nations will gather to debate how to slow or reduce global warming. He described the core message of the encyclical as human ecology, arguing that global economic inequality a theme Francis has frequently raised is inextricably linked to climate change.
Go here to read the rest. There are few more foolish things that a Pope can do than wed his great prestige to junk science. PopeWatch prays this is not what Pope Francis is about to do.
“The Puppet Pope”
The last time leaders of the Church married their moral authority to a particular scientific doctrine things went very badly, and not just for Galileo but the Church itself.
The Red Pope.
Your timeline is all wrong. It neglects the point where the Orthodox jumped the tracks and ignored Christ’s instructions on the indissolubility of the Sacrament of Marriage.
Pope only infaible about faith an morals and thsat only sometimes
Sorry for phone keyboard typos forgot to edit.
Green outside, red inside
The Environmentalist and Liberation Theology Pope
While thousands of Christians are slaughtered by Muslims, Pope Francis debases his office meddling in trivial matters such as the global warming hoax while ignoring the mortal threats growing upon the Church and the World.
Tens of thousands of Christians have been tortured and slaughtered and Catholic churches set on fire in Nigeria, Sudan, Syria, Egypt and all around the Muslim world, while the Pope keeps repeating the mantra that Islam is a religion of peace.
Christians have been thrown out from the Middle East, the cradles of Christianity.
The Islamization of Europe and in American schools.
Millions of babies are being murdered in their mothers wombs by abortion.
Islamic state, ISIS, promising to march into Rome and use St. Peters as a stable.
Millions of Christians in Africa are sold as sex slaves in Muslims countries.
In United States freedom of religion is curtailed for Christians and Jews, while Islam is promoted and Muslims are given preferential status by the Obama regime. Obama refers to the Bible as the good book while he always calls the Koran as the holy Koran.
Catholics in United States are forced to betray their faith and religious principles due to Obamacare mandates.
Pope Francis gave his support to the Marxist liberation theology, a corruption of the Gospels proscribed by H.H. John Paul II and H.H. Benedict XVI.
Pope Francis gave moral cover to Obamas betrayal of the Cuban people deceiving the American taxpayers to assume the burden of keeping afloat the genocidal Stalinist regime that have kept enslaved for over half a century the Cuban people while remaining a threat to the security of United States.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.