Help Me Find Good Catholic Stuff from a Climate-Skeptic Perspective (Vanity)

Myself | Mrs Don-o

[don-o]

Why don’t you resign from your post in protest?

That is the exactly wrong thing to do.

[ebb tide]

It doesn’t make any sense for me to forego the opportunity to choose (and unchoose) what we publish as I see fit.

How long do you think your pastor will allow that? Due you think he'll let you publish the Oath against Modernism, also?

[Mrs. Don-o]

All Catholic parishes, as far as I know, have priests for pastors. They in turn have associate pastors (also priests) and deacons as their assistants.

The exception would be where you don't have enough priests to have a resident priest for each parish, so you have "clusters" where there's one priest for several parishes. In such cases you'd typically have a "pastoral team" in each parish responsible for administration, and this could be composed of deacons, sisters, maybe even officers from the parish council (elected laypeople) --- but they would all be under the authority of that one priest, the pastor.

I hope I haven't been confusing.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Subverting the Dominant Paradigm" and "Speaking Truth to Power" can be a lot more rewarding...

One thumb, two thumbs, many thumbs up!

[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't think anybody can dispute that thou shalt not poison thy neighbor's air, water, seed or soil.

It's the whole algore-able, mega-politicized, EPA-dictatorship, Global Weather Command and Control, or pantheistic misty-poo we have to smack down hard. And if it tries to get up, smack it down again.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Excellent, thanks for these links. Exactly what I’m looking for.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Pell! Yes! Thank you! He’s the bomb.

[Daffy]

“I don’t wish to fight my pastor ...”

It’s not fighting, it’s education; he may even be grateful.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Fr. Pete is an intelligent man, a conscientious pastor, and a good ally. We trust each other. That’s worth a lot. Yes, he’ll trust me to do the right thing.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"I don’t wish to fight my pastor ..."... It’s not fighting, it’s education; he may even be grateful.

Yes, exactly. I think so. I expect reasonable people to act reasonably.

[ansel12]

What I was asking about was, when you kept using the word “pastor”, were you describing a priest.

Most of us are used to Catholics calling priests, priest.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, priest = pastor and vice versa, if here’s only one priest at your parish. If you have two priests or more, one might be the pastor, and the others might be retired, assistant pastor, associate pastor, visiting priests, or something else.

[ansel12]

Just checking, I’m surprised that you prefer the word pastor over priest, I didn’t know it was that common.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yup!

[ebb tide]

I don't consider Fr. Pete to be that intelligent if he's into Earth Day. And a true conscientious pastor should be interested in more spiritual matters for his flock than some fabricated day created by a lunatic Senator who was big into population control.

The April 22 Earth Day, founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson, was first organized in 1970 to promote ecology and respect for life on the planet as well as to encourage awareness of the growing problems of air, water and soil pollution.

Nelson viewed the stabilization of the nation's population as an important aspect of environmentalism. In his words:

The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become…. We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population. It can be done. But in this country, it's phony to say "I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration."

Does your pastor know that Nelson was not only against immigration but he was pro population control? Does the the USSCCB know that, with its current howl for blanket amnesty?

[Mrs. Don-o]

“Intelligent” isn’t the same as “informed.”

[ebb tide]

And “stupid” isn’t the same as “dumb”.

Good luck in “informing” Fr. Pete.

[Mrs. Don-o]

As I said before, I expect reasonable people to act reasonably.

But thank you for your wishes of good luck. You might throw in a Hail Mary as well. I'll report later on how it all turns out.

[ebb tide]

Prayers forthcoming.

[Sergio]

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