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To: Mrs. Don-o

I have no problem accepting all of what you wrote.

However, I also have my doubts as to whether this is what Pope Francis *means*.

It’s pretty clear that he has bought into the global warming fraud — as well as its socialist-oriented remedies — hook, line, and sinker.

And that, not sensible environmentally-conscious activities like you mention, is what the Pope is really pushing. And what he says GOD will judge us for: not going along with the global warming income-redistribution and elite-enrichment scam.

That alarms me, not least because those most strongly aligned with the global warming fraud are not Christian in nature, but rather atheistic and pagan.

And paganism and creation-worship and its close ally, human pride and confidence in human solutions, I assure you, is definitely counter to GOD’s will and His plan.


125 posted on 05/12/2015 5:02:53 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Nervous Tick
I can't say anything about Pope Francis' upcoming encyclical until it's published and I've read it. (Pretty quirky on my part, hey?) But 20 years ago, already, Pope Saint John Paul II was writing about the human duty to safeguard the environment in his quite wonderful pro-life encyclical of 1995, Evangelium Vitae.

John Paul said that our that our ecological responsibility is “not only for the present, but also for future generations.” He added: “The dominion granted to man by the Creator is not an absolute power … to dispose of things as one pleases…. When it comes to the natural world, we are subject not only to biological laws but also to moral ones, which cannot be violated with impunity” (Evangelium Vitae, 42).

When Francis speaks on the environment, he'll be (hopefully in a vein of Catholic moral continuity, not pagan/Marxism) continuing the ecological teaching by several previous popes, including our beloved Pope Benedict XVI.

Despite that, people are simply caterwauling now about what they imagine the pope will say.

If he alleges as a "fact" that the globe is dangerously warming, and/or that it's caused by rising CO2 levels, or that it's caused by cow-farts or coal-fired generating plants or the internal combustion engine, I'll be among the fist to stride to the mic (as if anyone would offer me a mic) shouting, "You're outside your competence there, Pope Francis!" His competence is in faith and morals, not in prudential judgments about centuries-long geophysical processes or political policy preferences. Sometimes those appear tangled together. It's within the competence of the laity to untangle them.

If the message gets totally scrambled, it'll be our fault (I'm including "my" in "our") --- our fault as the laity, because it is to us that action "in the world" is entrusted.

128 posted on 05/12/2015 6:07:00 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Who is the one who fears the Lord? God shows him the way he should choose. Ps 25: 12)
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