Posted on 05/17/2015 10:43:00 AM PDT by NYer
A Vatican insider asserts that Pope Francis has scrapped the draft of his encyclical letter on the environment and sent it back for major revision. The letter was slated for publication in early summer, but now may not be ready until much later, he suggests.
Citing sources within the Santa Marta residence where the Pope lives, veteran Vatican journalist Sandro Magister has written that “Francis has scrubbed the draft” of the text presented to him by Argentinian Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, perhaps foreseeing that Cardinal Gerhard Müller of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith “would have demolished it” once it was presented to him for approval.
Though Magister has not always gotten it right, he has broken a good number of important stories over the years, including Pope Francis’ decision to remove Cardinal Raymond Burke from his post as head of the Vatican’s highest court.
Magister asserts that Fernández, who is the rector of the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires, is the Pope’s number one ghostwriter, having begun writing for the Pope when he was still archbishop of Buenos Aires. The journalist claims that Fernández was responsible for drafting the 2013 “apostolic exhortation” Evangelii Gaudium and was subsequently assigned the task of composing the new letter on the environment in March 2014.
One Vatican official told Breitbart News that he had heard nothing of plans to table the papal encyclical and would be very surprised to see anything of the sort at this late date. Recently, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi tried to quash what he called “rumors and fantasies” about delays of the encyclical, saying that such speculation was “totally unfounded” and that it “seems almost unbelievable that such things are written.”
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Guess what einstein, it isn't his job to "represent you"-- or the communist despots.
There were precedents set - many don't remember Pope John Paul II also telling us how we needed to save/preserve the Earth....
I find it odd that any religious person who believes in God and His Word in the Bible can get distracted by such crap. God has told us how it will pan out and whether or not we make a mess of the environment is really irrelevant to the big picture and how things go......
As pope, he should know Catholic theology. I just don’t believe he agrees with it.
Those for whom his behavior has become such an occasion of sin that they are tempted to abandon Mass and the Sacraments would be better off spiritually to simply focus on adhering to the Deposit of Faith and tune him out.
The Pope used to represent Catholic beliefs to the world.
He’s now AlGore in a robe.
Like it or not, he is the representative for all Catholics.
Maybe you didn’t know that.
Glad I could help you.
By the way Einstein, he’s doing a fine job representing the communist party in Cuba.
KMA.
-— It would be nice if Pope Francis stuck to theology, instead of something he knows nothing about. -—
Science, probably yes. But theology certainly touches on Creation and man’s relationship to it, which is probably what the encyclical is about.
But when it’s released, “man must be a good steward of Creation” will become, “pope calls for signing of Kyoto protocols.”
If the encyclical is neutral about the Global Warming Hoax, it will consist of nothing but stale platitudes about “stewardship” and so on, and will be forgotten in a week.
If the encyclical endorses the Global Warming Hoax, it will be the scandal of the century, because the earth has been cooling for 18 years and 6 months. It will be the first encyclical in history to teach a manifest, provable hoax.
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