Posted on 06/23/2015 7:36:08 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Although the media focused on Pope Francis’s views on the environment, they neglected to mention some of his other notable positions in the highly-publicized encyclical “Laudato Si.” For example, Pope Francis had this to say about abortion, in context of respecting the environment:
“Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion. How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulties? “If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of the new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away.”
Similarly, the Pope does not mince words attacking a current fad:
“The acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home, whereas thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation…”
“Learning to accept our body, to care for it and to respect its fullest meaning, is an essential element of any genuine human ecology. Also, valuing one’s own body in its femininity or masculinity is necessary if I am going to be able to recognize myself in an encounter with someone who is different…”
“It is not a healthy attitude which would seek to ‘cancel out sexual difference because it no longer knows how to confront it.’”
Even on the issue of climate change, Pope Francis blasts the Left’s favorite policies of carbon credits, or cap-and-trade. Pope Francis stated:
“The strategy of buying and selling ‘carbon credits’ can lead to a new form of speculation which would not help reduce the emission of polluting gases worldwide. This system seems to provide a quick and easy solution under the guise of a certain commitment to the environment, but in no way does it allow for the radical change which present circumstances require. Rather, it may simply become a ploy which permits maintaining the excessive consumption of some countries and sectors.”
Mother Gaia is thirsty.
"The twenty-first century, while maintaining systems of governance inherited from the past, is witnessing a weakening of the power of nation states, chiefly because the economic and financial sectors, being transnational, tends to prevail over the political. Given this situation, it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empowered to impose sanctions.
Yikes.
Marxists are duplicitous and intelligent (as in savvy about manipulation) — in my experience.
They are certain they are right and disdainful of others, including those they deceive.
The pope does not strike me that way. He is lead where he goes and lacks the guile and intent I encounter in committed marxists. He is the wrong man for the job.
This is why I call Pope Francis naïve. He ought to realize by now that they will cherry=pick his statements.
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