Man made global warming is a moral absolute. What could go wrong with that?(/sarcasm)
Posted on 07/19/2017 4:00:54 PM PDT by ebb tide
The head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences has again inferred that denial of the controversial concept of manmade climate change equates to flat earth mentality.
"From the scientific point of view, the sentence that the earth is warmed by human activity is as true as the sentence: The earth is round!” said Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo.
The archbishop has been a consistent and zealous promoter of manmade climate change as a non-negotiable Church issue, despite the status of care for the environment as a prudential matter.
Climate change ideology continues to be contested as a ploy perpetrated with manipulated data by the left to enact environmental regulations and taxes.
Even so, Archbishop Sorondo dismissed deniers of climate change in a recent Vatican Radio interview as "a small, negligible minority."
The interview conducted in German contained the headline: “Vatican: ‘Climate change is a fact,’” and centered on reception of Pope Francis’ eco-encyclical Laudato Si’ two years after its release.
Archbishop Sorondo went on in the interview to say that human-affected climate change was considered science. He added that the pope not only has the right but also the duty to rely on science in addition to doctrine and philosophy in seeking out truth.
If the pope expresses himself on such a subject, then this was not arbitrary, he said, as the pope’s words are not restricted to the area of "doctrine of faith and morals."
The pope makes use of the truths of science or philosophy to not only explain to man how to get to heaven, said the archbishop, but also what he must do on earth.
All human activities have to do with ethics, the Argentinean archbishop said, so they are already within the jurisdiction of the pope.
Archbishop Sorondo is a close adviser to Pope Francis and the Chancellor of both the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. He has repeatedly welcomed pro-abortion and population control advocates to the Vatican for conferences under the pretext of the climate issue.
Last month, just before President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would pull out of the controversial Paris Climate Agreement, the archbishop likened climate ideology skeptics to flat-earthers as well.
Withdrawal from the Paris accord "would not only be a disaster but completely unscientific," he said.
"Saying that we need to rely on coal and oil is like saying that the earth is not round,” Archbishop Sorondo stated. “It is an absurdity dictated by the need to make money."
He has also repeatedly made the claim that those who don’t subscribe to the manmade climate change theory are in some way subsidized by the oil industry. He did so again in the Vatican Radio interview.
"Of course, some sectors that depend on the oil lobby — including some Catholic institutions! — do not agree with Laudato Si’,'” the archbishop stated. “And with this they are causing serious damage, because the climate is deteriorating — even the opponents of climate change will be among their victims, in the short or long term.”
Archbishop Sorondo drew a heated reaction at a December 2015 conference in Rome on Laudato Si’ by claiming that the pope’s pronouncements on global warming expressed in his document are magisterial teaching with the same gravity as the Church’s teaching on abortion.
The archbishop had tried to float the idea then as well that climate change, then generally still labeled global warming, was a non-negotiable moral issue.
After asserting in his address that global warming was caused by human activity and twice claiming that Pope Francis’ teaching on it via Laudato Si’ was magisterial, other panel presenters at the conference challenged Archbishop Sorondo.
Acton Institute founder and president Father Robert Sirico explained citing the Catechism that the Church’s mission was spiritual and not political, economic or social.
“The Church does not claim to speak with the same authority on matters of economics and science as it does when pronouncing on matters of faith and morals,” he said.
Later during the question and answer session when asked about the weight of the pope’s opinions regarding global warming in Laudato Si’, Archbishop Sorondo said the “judgment must be considered magisterium – it is not an opinion.”
“It is under ordinary magisterium,” he said, “that abortion is a grievous sin – this is ordinary magisterium because there is not the revelation of it.” So there is an assumption of “moral doctrine,” he continued, that even though the majority opinion is contrary, we accept that “abortion is a grievous sin” is magisterium.
Journalist Riccardo Cascioli objected to the archbishop implying that Catholics must submit to pronouncements on scientific theories versus faith and morals, prompting a stern retort from Sorondo.
“When the Pope has assumed this, it is magisterium of the church whether you like it or not,” he stated. “It is the magisterium of the church just as abortion is a grievous sin – equal … it is magisterium of the church ... whether you like it or not.”
Relax. They’re just getting ready for NWO.
A church decreeing what scientific fact is. Got to love the irony!
Hard to find a single soul listening to what regurgitates out of the Vatican these days.
The bishop of Rome thinks he matters, but everyone has left the theater already, except the fire marshal. Tick, tick, tick.
A liar and a fool. But then look who he represents.
Globalists dominate the EU and the Vatican. “Climate Change” and “Global Warming” must be accepted to persuade nations to surrender their sovereignty to in the words of Al Gore a global “controlling authority”. The Vatican under this Pope is trying to make its theology synonymous with progressive socialism. Catholics may listen respectively but are not obligated to obey this Pope’e or any Pope’s political directives.
Boy! I’m glad I am not Catholic who might have to listen to that commy fool.
Except it isn't round. It is at best an oblate spheroid. And even that changes from time to time.
So Sorondo is wrong as to what he thinks he is saying and yet correct in reality.
I wonder if he would appreciate the irony of that.
All those to whom anything beyond democrat-level math is magic, that is.
Man made global warming is a moral absolute. What could go wrong with that?(/sarcasm)
This is an incredibly sloppy statement and, on the plain grammatical reading of it, borders on the absurd.
If Abp Sorondo were in my RCIA class as a catechumen, I would not approve him to be received into the Catholic Church until he had cleared up in his mind the limits of papal "jurisdiction".
He simply does not understand enough about Catholicism.
And he would certainly not be allowed to teach!
the only global warming we see ... are the fires of Hell
heating things up with wolves in clerical sheep’s clothing preaching false teachings
The Vatican holds priceless treasures, real estate and even deposits in the Vatican bank.
Why not set an example and spend several billion on projects to reclaim CO2 and help with global warming, since all life on Earth is at stake.
Set an example, that would be the right thing to do.
Exactly. The same sort of dogmatism that was used to prop up the Aristotelian theory of the universe as holy writ is now being used to promote anthropogenic global warming/climate change/extreme weather/etc. and to punish anyone who dares promote an alternative hypothesis
You'd thing the Church would have learned.
Calling The Onion - The Eye of the Tiber - Babylon Bee.
But is satire ever possible anymore? Goober peas, this guy is a self-parody.
(Pounds head on mousepad.)
When was the last time God's opinion mattered since this false prophet Pope came to be? The Vatican seems to read more Rules for Radicals and Globalist talking points than the Bible.
Which is not the same as an Apostolic hierarchy.
Sometimes I really do think the head of the Apostolic hierarchy is still that holy, civilized and learned man (also dressed in white, and probably under sedation) in the little house down the street from Domus Sanctae Martae.
This is like living a very disturbing dream.
When pigs fly. Presumptuous scientific judgments proclaimed by Francis and his troupe of tyrannical prancing purple commies have exactly zero correspondence to "magisterium".
Beat me to it.
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