Posted on 04/01/2019 9:41:22 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
When I took these "Climate Crisis Lent" concerns to my pastor, he suggested this was a a good topic for constructive dialogue. So I finally "screwed my courage to the sticking point" and sent it out to everybody in my parish for whom I have e-mail addresses (several hundred names) plus my Bishop, the head of the Diocesan Adult Faith Formation program, the Chancellor and various other Chancery people, and miscellaneous "randos".
Incidentally, find that the hot-link does not work but the cut and paste definitely does. So I invite you to cut-and-paste:
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/narthex/climate-crisis-lent/#
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I just had a little article called "Climate Crisis Lent" published over at the New Oxford Review blog. I find that the hot-link does not work but the cut and paste definitely does. So I invite you to cut-and-paste:
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/narthex/climate-crisis-lent/#
I welcome any sort of response to me, personally, for constructive dialogue. If you wish to respond to New Oxford Review, use the "Contact Us" link. I find it does not hot-link (at least from my email program) but it is unfailingly accessed by cut-and-paste:
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/contact-us/#
As Pope Francis said in his important teaching document "Laudato Si," he does not consider "Climate Carbon Crisis" to be settled science, let alone settled doctrine. To quote Laudato Si,
"(LS, Para 60, 188) The Church does not Presume... to settle geophysical and geopolitical questions: we need honest, open debate. It is the mission of the laity to conquer the whole temporal order for Christ."
Fr. Pete, as well, suggested to me that the way to go on this, is charitable dialogue.
It is in this spirit that I write: Charitable dialogue , honest open debate.
Have a Good Lent!
[signed]
LOL! Thanks for that Mrs. Don-o. As in an earlier post on a different subject I asked if anyone remembered when the Pope deserved some respect?
Well said.
Climate change is the agenda of the left to control our lives and does not deserve to be taken seriously. I say that as a meteorologist who recognizes the difference between *climate* and *weather*.
That said, the sexual abuse of people by Catholicism is going to wreck far more lives than the myth of *climate change* is.
Going after *climate change* is tilting at windmills.
There are far bigger fish to fry.
Really wonky resolution to that webpage. Difficult to read.
Is the webmaster a true believer of The Goracle?
Ping. Good editorial.
Make a meaningful difference this Lent.
Join 40 Days For Life on the prayer line.
good one, thanks!
(imho, IF global warming were a problem, then I would be reticent to object to reasonable sermons on how we might help solve it......... in the name of “good stewardship” or
“mending the world” or just “survival”....)
However,
the weather has been about the same my entire life....
with Zero visible overall changes....
AND
all this fuss from the extreme leftwing inevitably comes with more taxes and less individual liberties, over and over again.......the commie-Nazi leftist agenda of seizing what little remain of our “inalienable rights” (and hard-earned dineros)
I would respectfully submit that Pope Francis should preach a lot more about some genuine morals and faith matters ... he could find the time by simply throwing out his Marxism Made Easy book...............or, even better, exchanging it for a Bible? Bibles are given away by many for free, I would be happy to mail him one, or he can get one for 25 cents at St Vincent or Starvation Army
What the hay...I’ll be gone in 11.9 years anyway.
(When did the clock start ticking on the 12 years? I figure a little has passed...thus 11.9.)
Excellent!
How about giving up ‘global climate change’ and associated BS for lent?
Good on you. God bless and happy Lent.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
That said, if you are so moved, why don’t you go ahead and solve sexual abuse? We’ll be grateful.
The spiritual and moral re-alignment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ has to be promoted by the laity at every level of the "fractal."
I agree 100%, my friend.
Know, however, that the blog owner (New Oxford Review) and the blog editor(Barbara Rose) are firmly with the Resistance (meaning resistance to the Left, both in Church and State) --- and have been for a long time.
Let me second that about a million times.
Upper East Tennesseeans,that would be the abortuary on West State Street in Bristol, TN. Every day this Lent. Let's shut 'em down.
The Catholic Church is trying to play catch-up with the Episcopalians so I think your fighting a bit of a losing battle. That said, if I were a convicted Catholic I’d just ignore all this claptrap and try to keep the traditional fasting rules as best as my health (and willpower) would permit. In the Christian West that generally meant no meat, alcohol and dairy from Ash Wednesday until after receiving Communion on Easter. Fish was generally allowed.
That’s why I go say the Rosary in front of the abortuary in Bristol, TN.
It helps my fasting to be several miles away from my refrigerator :o)
Excellent!
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