Posted on 07/09/2025 7:48:21 AM PDT by dennisw
Do you believe that the Catholic Church sees the danger of embracing earth worship, and the inevitable decline in Church attendance, possibly its own extinction and replacement by the new religion of environmentalism, and yet they are forging ahead anyway?
I’ve always thought that the Church leaders were more astute, at least in the past they were of sound mind, from their perspective.
The creation of the Society of Jesus performed admirably as a counterbalance to the Reformation.
The Jesuits spread far and wide, and were the first into Japan and Asia in the mid sixteenth century in their conversion efforts and expanding the global reach and power of the Church.
It was truly amazing what they were able to accomplish when they were faced with the threat of the Reformation, and I believe that environmentalism is a far graver risk to the Church than decoupling Christianity from the Bishop of Rome.
This switches the focus from the salvation of eternal souls and all of humanity to the questionable and dubious efforts of brainwashed university students.
I’ve been listening to this nonsense of the environmentalists since the 1960s, and the message is always the same. “….If we don’t do something radical in the next ten years then cities around the world will be under water….”, blah blah blah….
The most egregious example was the use of the Office of the Vice President by former VP Al Gore in 2007 to peddle the same lame nonsense I’ve been hearing for decades, with the same result, zero evidence. None then and none now.
To put it plain and simple, it’s a power grab by the political left, and a shameless one at that, which is what the push for “green energy” is really about.
It will turn to sh#t like all their other wildly expensive policies, but who cares, right?
It’s someone else’s money, and there’s always more where that came from.
There is tremendous power in maintaining ancient traditions, which explains, at least in part, the continued growth of Islam and the current and continuing decline of Christianity.
A someone who attended a Jesuit university I still hold out hope that they could wake up and see the obvious looming danger (especially as they’re supposed to be the most astute in the Church), but so far I’m still disappointed.
Thank you for your comment.
It’s comforting to know that I’m not alone.
I’ve an uncle from Brooklyn that went to Fordham back in the 1930s. Outstanding education.
I love history, and he introduced me to Hilaire Belloc’s books, and I was taken with the clarity of his thoughtful writing and logic.
I particularly enjoyed his treatise on the Crusades, and I finally understood how and why it happened, and why it did not succeed.
Thanks again.
“THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE ANTI-CHURCH CURRENTLY CO-EXIST IN THE SAME SACRAMENTAL, LITURGICAL AND JURIDICAL SPACE”.
Fr. Linus Clovis from a speech he gave to the Rome Life Forum on 18 May, ARSH 2017.
Meet the new crackpot... Same as the old crackpot.
Presuming Fr. Linus Clovis is correct in his diagnosis of Holy Mother Church, we as lay Catholics should be listening carefully for the voice of of our loving and faithful shepherd, while ignoring all other voices.
Along the same vein is this from Bishop Strickland:
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