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Why I’m Disregarding Laudato Si and You Should Too
The Remnant Newspaper ^ | June 19, 2015 | Chris Jackson

Posted on 06/21/2015 9:29:37 AM PDT by ebb tide

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1 posted on 06/21/2015 9:29:37 AM PDT by ebb tide
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“The most evident mark of God’s anger, and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world, is manifest when He permits His people to fall into the hands of a clergy who are more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds. They abandon the things of God to devote themselves to the things of the world and, in their saintly calling of holiness, they spend their time in profane and worldly pursuits. When God permits such things, it is a very positive proof that He is thoroughly angry with His people and is visiting His most dreadful wrath upon them.”
—Saint John Eudes
2 posted on 06/21/2015 9:40:26 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: ebb tide

Fantastic read - thanks for posting.


3 posted on 06/21/2015 9:43:11 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: ebb tide

My wife was talking about the modernization of her home town in Southeast Asia during the 20th century. The two pieces of modern machinery that made the most beneficial contribution to the average person’s life were a gas engine operated cultivator and the pickup truck. The cultivator freed up a lot of labor time that was used to produce other products and the pickup gave the farmer the ability to market their produce to a wide area and get a better price than the middlemen offered. Their rice, vegetables and fruit could be directly taken to the larger markets and directly sold.

Both the cultivator and the pickup are major sources of CO2, not to mention the construction of roads and small manufacturing plants located in the villages. Habitat destruction.


4 posted on 06/21/2015 9:45:07 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: ebb tide
Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.

Not to mention the scream of the butterfly.

5 posted on 06/21/2015 9:54:36 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (So is carbon dioxide the "Smoke of Satan"?)
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To: ebb tide
>>and waxes poetic about people leading animals to God<<

Um.....wait......what?

6 posted on 06/21/2015 9:57:55 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: ebb tide
A simple example is the increasing use and power of air-conditioning.

Whoa. Now it's personal.

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7 posted on 06/21/2015 9:58:34 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (So is carbon dioxide the "Smoke of Satan"?)
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And the wail of the banshee.


8 posted on 06/21/2015 10:00:07 AM PDT by BusterBear (D)
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To: ebb tide

‘MHaving wasted over an hour of my life, I now can say that I have read Laudato Si. It is the Pope’s latest verbose tome of an encyclical,’

One can be quite certain that many of the blthering, blabbing pundits have not done so

Anyone who says anything about this encyclical should be asked 1 What is an encyclical, 2 Is it considered infallible, 3 Have they read any other of the many papal encyclicals, 4 Just how many are there and are they ignored as massively as Humanae Vitae?

All should be asked why do so many in the Church ignore the encyclicals, most importantly, Humanae Vitae,

In my entire church going life I’ve heard reference to encyclicals once from the priest in the pulpit. Once I was told that it is incompatible with Catholicism to vote for a pro abortion candidate over one who is not

This encyclical can certainly be ignored as much as the one warning very logically against birth control


9 posted on 06/21/2015 10:09:11 AM PDT by stanne
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To: ebb tide

A worthy read. Though there were some points I agreed with most of the Encyclical caused me to feel uneasy. I just could not figure out why. Now I know. Thanks.


10 posted on 06/21/2015 10:21:16 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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Since the encyclical denigrates air conditioning, the author logically suggests that the Pope and all who support this document turn off their air conditioning during the summer. In addition, I think it would be logical to ask them to turn off their heating during the winter. This applies not only to homes and businesses, but also to churches.

How better to show one’s religious devotion than to attend a church with no heating?


11 posted on 06/21/2015 10:22:00 AM PDT by BusterBear
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It is interesting that a Pope feels he can call for famine and the impoverishment of the world by the extremely wealthy and by governments. It is highly contradictory when a Marxist becomes Pope. Christ whom we are supposed to follow intimately said nothing about taking from people, any people. Christ admonished people to adopt poverty in themselves. Redistributing income and assets by anyone other than the owners is theft and is sinful. This Pope, alas, is calling for truly breathtaking theft to the point that following his demands must result in famine and degradation for the bulk of humanity to the material aggrandizement of the rulers.

Laudato Si is not about faith and morals and is not promulgated in union with the Bishops. It is a political opinion and is prima facie at odds with the words of Jesus Christ.

I have to remind myself that God does not make mistakes and there is a reason for this Pope. There are signs that all is not as it seems. There is the very orthodox Benedict. He abdicated but he is still there. The liberal German Bishops with vhanging alliances with the Americans and other Europeans have been trying to engineer a Modernist Marxist or at least Protestant Pope since the early 1900s at least. Perhaps it is time they get their man and the lesson that will come with it. We will know or our children or grandchildren will know why this Pope but it is only for us now to try not to be too terribly stunned; just go to mass and participate in the sacraments.

12 posted on 06/21/2015 10:34:15 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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A couple of Medici Popes were rapacious rulers but did not affect the Church because they were too busy aggrandizing themselves to worry about Faith and Morals and the Magisterium. This Pope is different. He is trying to mess with the Church and is concerned with material things way beyond what any Christian teacher should be.


13 posted on 06/21/2015 10:37:19 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: BusterBear
Skip to 5:20. After the Scream, jump to 7:02.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B61ZUu48-58

14 posted on 06/21/2015 10:37:35 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (So is carbon dioxide the "Smoke of Satan"?)
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To: ebb tide

I read this, and compared Laudato Si to Pius XI’s “Casti Cannubii.”

Casti Cannubii, which I read only recently, was wonderful. Its logic was impeccable - it laid out the obvious truths of the natural world, basics of the Catholic faith, and together wove a highly reasoned and timeless moral argument about the sanctity of marriage, why Catholics oppose birth-control, and the evil of abortion and eugenics,

It was written in response to a specific event - the Anglicans allowing birth control at their Lambeth conference, but Casti Cannubii could have been written in 1430 as easily as in 1930 - and it will be clear and relevant in 2430 as well. It is truly what an “encyclical” should be.

I contrast it with Laudato Si, which seems emotive, muddled and relevant only a fad political and social thinking of these recent years.


15 posted on 06/21/2015 10:50:41 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ebb tide

The pope should read Divini Redemptoris. (Google it)


16 posted on 06/21/2015 11:24:17 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: ebb tide
Novus Novus Ordo Mass
17 posted on 06/21/2015 12:02:06 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (So is carbon dioxide the "Smoke of Satan"?)
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To: PGR88

This is not an encyclical, it’s a manifesto. And like all manifestoes, it’s irrational, sophomoric and embarrassing to read.


18 posted on 06/21/2015 12:28:14 PM PDT by livius
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LOL.
It sure does look like things are going that way doesn’t it.


19 posted on 06/21/2015 1:03:32 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: ebb tide

He is a hell bound humanist/Marxist ...


20 posted on 06/21/2015 1:04:41 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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