Posted on 06/22/2015 10:12:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last week was a hard one to fully process for adult-ADD-addled news junkie like me. A momentous and arguably uplifting event -- Pope Francis' encyclical on climate change, a powerful document that folks may still be talking about in the year 2525, if Man (and Woman) are still alive -- was drowned out, at least in this country, by by the sound of gunfire and the manifestation of raw hate that occurred in Charleston. (And who exactly was Rachel Dolezal again?)
The tragedy of Charleston and its "Mother Bethel" church absolutely needs to stay on the front burner of the national conversation -- crossing the the hot wires of how we choose to remember America's racist history and how we struggle to cope with our violent present. But Francis' remarkable statement on the environment also demands a second reading -- one that makes it worth pondering whether the dark roots of America's addiction to oil and our epidemic of mass murders, in fact, deeply overlap.
Here's how. In his encyclical, Pope Francis does the world a valuable service by acknowledging the science of global warming -- the same science that's accepted by more 98 percent of the world's climatologists yet denied by millions, many of them people of faith. But what's striking is that he doesn't just frame this problem in pure kilowatts, as a matter of energy efficiency. Instead, Francis is a spiritual leader who sees a spiritual sickness in a culture that can't even address the crisis -- a culture that venerates freedom but promotes isolation, of consumerist humans unable to appreciate a common good, let alone act on it....
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
This Pope is nuts.
I second that!
Pope Karl I now proposes to be the second leader of the faith to change the weather. This will decrease the success rate to 50%.
The Church is far from perfect and has made many mistakes over the centuries. The gates of hell have indeed breached it on many occasions. The current Pontiff is a prime example. The Church is far from infallible and the current occupant of the throne of St. Peter is proof of this.
If he wants to get more people to join the church he’s going about it the wrong way. Turning himself into a celibate Al Gore won’t do it.
How about that papal infallibility?
The encyclical is NOT about climate change. That issue is only briefly mentioned.
“The focus of Laudato Sí’ is the human person. The central thesis is that the fallen nature of the human heart and the resulting brokenness of human relations is the cause of the crises in our lives, families, nations, and now the life-sustaining ecosystems that form our common home.
The Holy Father laments throughout the encyclical how mentalities that seek instant gratification do not take into account “effects on human dignity and the natural environment” (56). That said, the problems of our age are not the result of this or that political or economic system. Rather they are rooted in how we may corrupt those systems within a wider “culture of consumerism, which prioritizes short-term gain and private interest.” (184)
The central solution to all this is not reworked political or economic ideologies. Ultimately, the pope tells us, the answer is Jesus Christ and our relationships with Him, our neighbors, and the created order, which “is of the order of love.” (77)
The encyclical is about “the heart of man and the disorders of our age.”
More information here:
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/3964/why_i_welcome_laudato_si.aspx
The Papal Encyclical or Papal Bulls-—as I call it, clearly, more than anything else, clearly reflects the Pope’s loathing of free market capitalism, private property, and individual liberty-—you know-—the very concepts which are the founding principles of our nation.
Pope is a Dope.
Martin Luther was right.
He on crack?
Do any but the most radical Roman Catholics have respect for this Pope?
Please, God, use these events to tear the scales off their eyes so they can see You!
Let the Light be so bright that they walk away with confidence and go to the Truth.
Let their shackles be broken so that they run to the Savior.
Show them who You are and let their lives be transformed!
I’m a Catholic and I haven’t been this disgusted since the homosexual-pedophile priest scandal and the cover-up to it was exposed.
I was highly disappointed that Pope Francis would pass of his personal political views as Scripturally-based Church Dogma. It is as brazenly political a document as I’ve ever read.
These goofballs really think this particular mundane drift in global climate will be remembered for anything more than the strange accompanying "end times" hucksterism, more akin to the middle ages.
The danger from all of this of course are the political policies which could emerge from it. You will have politicians all over the world, religious and not, spiritual and not, Catholic and not, who will say, see, the Pope supports my position on this issue. The Pope therefore gives the Left the moral imprimatur it needs to enact its radical Left agenda.
Algore does not strike me as a particularly religious or spiritual person. But he can now get up on the lectern and say, even the Pope and the Catholic Church support his position.
Amen.
That’s only what’s known that was hidden...imagine what’s not yet exposed! The catholic church has much to hide....
POPE FRANCIS “BOLD CULTURAL REVOLUTION”
The problem is that Francis only listen to those who share his political socialist agenda.
Can the faithful Catholic reject Pope Francis’ political Encyclical on global warming when Francis is the first and only Pope that is preaching against the Magisterium of the Church on the constant condemnation of communism and opened the doors of the Vatican to the theologians who corrupted the Gospels with the doctrine of Marx? Most importantly, the Pope has backed his words with actions. During his visit to Brazil in 2013, the Pope held meetings with Liberation Theologians on preparing a new doctrine for the church.
By the fruits you will know the tree, by their advisers you will know the leaders.
Pope Francis is more radical and dangerous than Obama. As soon as he took power he rescued from the trash bin of History the Marxist liberation theology after was proscribed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Francis called the most radical of its leaders, Leonardo Boff, who was silenced by H.H. Pope John Paul II, as one of his adviser for his encyclical that tries to give moral support to the global warming hoax, but instead Francis destroys his credibility and demeans the respect for the Catholic Church.
Father Gustavo Gutierrez, father of the liberation theology embraced by Francis, explained: “What we mean here regarding liberation theology is the involvement of the revolutionary political process”. (10) Gutiérrez also explains the sense of this involvement: “Only by going beyond a society divided into classes. (…) Only eliminating private property of the wealth created by human work, will we be able to lay down the bases for a more just society. It is for this that the efforts to project a new society in Latin America are tending more and more towards socialism”.
“Socialist societies are very ethical, clean, physically and morally. If it weren’t for his materialist doctrine it could be argued that they carried out the ethical teaching of the social doctrine of the Church.” Leonardo Boff on his return from a trip to Moscow, cfr.ABC, 16-VII-87, p.45
“The national planning of the Society of Jesus in the United States should, following the example of China, become an international planning. Towards the convergence of problems in all areas of the world around a single theme: the construction in different times and forms of a world Communist society.” Strategic document of a group of Dutch Jesuits - in collaboration with other Jesuit revolutionaries—published for internal debate in the official journal of the society of Jesus in the United States, National Jesuit News, April 1972.
Another of Francis’ top advisers is German Prof. John Schellnhuber, a well-known Malthusian and climate radical, and the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs, who is a longtime promoter of environmental measures, especially contraception and abortion, for purposes of population control. He was invited to Rome to participate in the Holy See’s climate-change summit in late April. Pope Francis made a very demeaning comment criticizing as rabbits the Catholic mothers that are blessed with many children. The mother of St Catherine de Sienna gave birth to 25 children. St Ignatius was the youngest of 13 children. How many more future Saints would be denied to live by Pope Francis’ birth control policy emulating Mao’s.
Francis rescued Marxist liberation theology from the trash bin of history, now he wants to exhume Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
In Pope Francis’ call for a “bold cultural revolution” to confront climate change, he is using classic Marxist terms (Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Marxist liberation theology) to promote a political agenda aimed toward the advance of “collectivism, redistribution of wealth, and global government.”
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