Posted on 06/24/2015 7:03:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As a Catholic, with all due respect, the Vatican is full of crap these days.
BOOM goes the dynamite. Just ask the suffering people in Pakistan if they’d like to have air conditioning right now.
The current occupant of the throne of Peter is a marxist who occasionally remembers to say something that sounds like Catholic doctrine.
Because it gets hot in Rome?
Because it gets hot in Rome?
I get an envelope every month labeled “To Defray Heating and Air Conditioning Costs”. From now on I am going to fill it with a copy of that passage from the encyclical.
“As a Catholic, with all due respect, the Vatican is full of crap these days.”
As a Catholic with minimum respect, they are followed closely by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
All libs and Leftists I agree.
So sick of it.
Wish the Church would get out of politics entirely and focus on what it is supposed to be doing.
I don’t even care any more if the Church’s tax exempt status is ever revoked.
LOL! Likely Catholic Churches around the country are going to get their fill of this type of rebellion. I sure hope so. The Pope really blew it.
In reading the encyclical and listening to the Popes comments, it strikes me that the 1 organization he has NOT criticized is GOVERNMENT. Considering that governments are the ones who wage war, have the most weapons, kill, imprison and oppress the most people, etc., you would think he might have something to say. Instead he focuses on capitalists and free market systems.
Bump
Not even the soft-core squishy Liberalism I’ve come to expect in Church doctrine. This thing is hard-core OWS.
There are rules Michelle. When the pope say something completely ridiculous, he’s been misquoted or mistranslated.
When he says something reasonable, it stands as is.
It’s really quite a phenomenon!
Governments are also the ones who ratchet up the cost of doing business and creating rules and regs which stifle, not promote, invention.
With people suffering and dying the(normal )heat wave in India and Pakistan crying out for their governments to do something about the blackouts caused by inefficient (fossil fueled)electrical power supply, the Vatican sits in air conditioned comfort and “pontificates” about the evils of carbon based modern society made easier by fossil fuels.
Hypocrites all!
Look at what our elites have in store for us “commoners”
“You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn’t separate us from nature, Ted. Civilization protects us from nature”
~STATE of FEAR (Crichton)
I have a relative who works for a Catholic organization staffed and owned by a religious group.
He cares for these old guys and likes their purpose and mission. He also tells me these learned men are the most disorganized, unrealistic, and in their own way, overbearing and entitled people he has ever worked with. That is saying a lot given his field and the breadth of his acquaintance.
He heads their profit center and spends hours trying to explain to these double docs the basics of profit and loss. It is a no win situation.
An example is how the head of the organization schedles several 200 to 300 people meetings, back to back. When my brother points out that staff has to have time to shift things and have breaks, there is little understanding. The practical stuff just doesn’t figure in.
So these days my relative will sit in planning meetings and when more impossible scheduling is discusses, he will point to the glitch and say, So, here, Father So and So, is when you come out of your office and perform the miracle of setting up the next function on the other side of the camupus in 5 minutes? And providing six more staff? Great!
The Pope should declare all the recent deaths in the recent Indian heat wave to be martyrs for climate change
As a practicing Roman Catholic I feel I need to remind everyone that this institution has had all kinds of bad popes and when they forget the admonition “My Kingdom Is Not Of This World” .This church gets into all sorts of trouble. But survives.
These meandering homilys of This pope on temporal matters diffuse any theologic message Pope Francis offers. Snowballs should be thrown at those pointy hat supporters of his as well as opposition clearly expressed to those meanderings on any visit Francis may make here.
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