Posted on 11/15/2019 6:36:46 PM PST by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Following through on a proposal made at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, Pope Francis said there are plans to include a definition of ecological sins in the church's official teaching.
"We should be introducing -- we were thinking -- in the Catechism of the Catholic Church the sin against ecology, ecological sin against the common home," he told participants at a conference on criminal justice Nov. 15.
Members of the International Association of Penal Law were in Rome Nov. 13-16 for the conference, which centered on the theme, "Criminal Justice and Corporate Business."
Pope Francis also denounced the abuse of law and legislation to justify acts of violence and hatred.
Today's throwaway culture, as well as other "psycho-social phenomenon" pose threats to the common good while insidiously promoting a "culture of hate," he said. These threats, he added, often take the form of "symbols and actions that are typical of Nazism."
"I must confess," the pope said, departing from his prepared remarks, "that when I hear some speeches, some person in charge of order or the government, I am reminded of Hitler's speeches in 1934 and 1936."
"They are actions typical of Nazism that, with its persecution of Jews, gypsies and people of homosexual orientation, represent a negative model par excellence of a throwaway culture and hate," the pope said. "That is what happened in that time and today, these things are reappearing."
Today's "current of punitivism, which claims to solve social problems through the penal system," has not worked, the pope said. Instead, an "elementary sense of justice" must be applied so that "certain conduct for which corporations are usually responsible, does not go unpunished."
Chief among those crimes, he added, are acts that "can be considered as 'ecocide': the massive contamination of air......
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He’s an anti Pope.
When will the rank and file Roman Catholics wake up and demand that the Anti-Western Atheist who is currently running their church get removed from office ???
Still guilt-trippin’ after all these centuries? Didn’t Jesus come to deliver people from all that religious mumbo-jumbo?
Well is there a sin coming off the list?
Let me guess. Buggery of choir boys is no longer a sin.
How in the world can he be so naive and confused?
This pope needs lots of prayers said for him.
Forgive me Father for I have farted.
But it hasn't happened yet.
....I am a life-long, born-into-the-faith observant Roman Catholic and it breaks my heart to see this Pope, whom I can almost consider an anti-Catholic Pope, carry on like he has been doing since almost his investiture...people forget that Martin Luther did not intend to destroy the Holy Mother Church, but wanted to reform it... this Pope seems set on destroying the church as we have known it for centuries...
He is neither naive nor confused.
He is an ordinary, everyday, run of the mill communist, and he has been doing exactly what people familiar with communists said he would do.
Pope-On-A-Dope
You can ignore everything that he teaches that is not scriptural.
Ave Gaia...
Won’t printing up this new set of rules kill a lot of trees?
Ecological concern and all . . .
Good one!
2. What else is he going to add/change/delete in that revised catechism?
He is not naive. He is downright evil. May he be buggered in Hell by Mohammed.
He is neither. He knows just what he is saying and he knows why he is saying it.
Is water wet? Yep
Does a bear crap in the woods? Yep
Is the pope Catholic? Nope
Bergoglio's First Commandment:
I am the Earth Goddess, Pachamama, thou shalt not throw me in my rivers.
More coming...
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