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?
Really wonky resolution to that webpage. Difficult to read.
Is the webmaster a true believer of The Goracle?
Ping. Good editorial.
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.
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.
Excellent!
Gore-bull worming is more of a Unitarian Commie thing.
The Catholic clergy need to keep their vestments zipped especially around altar boys.
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/02/book-of-gomorrah-new-publication-of-st.html
...St. Peter Damien (1007-1072) Abbot of the Fonte Avellana Monastery and subsequently Cardinal/Bishop of Ostia, was one of the most outstanding figures of Catholic reform in the XI century. His Liber Gomorrhianus, appeared around 1049, in an age when corruption was widely spread, even in the highest ranks of the ecclesiastical world. In this writing, addressed to Pope Leo IX, Peter Damien condemns the perverted habits of his time in a language that knows no false mercy or compromises. He is convinced that of all the sins, the gravest is sodomy, a term which includes all the acts against nature and which want to satisfy sexual pleasure by separating it from procreation. “If this absolutely ignominious and abominable vice is not immediately stopped with an iron fist – he writes – the sword of Divine wrath will fall upon us, bringing ruin to many.”
...He did not moderate his language, but kept it fiery to show his indignation. He was fearless in voicing an uncompromising hatred for sin and it was precisely this hatred that rendered his love burning for the Truth and the Good.
...Today, at the beginning of the third millennium of Christ’s birth, priests, bishops and Episcopal conferences are arguing for married priests; they are placing in doubt the indissolubility of the marriage bond between man and woman and at the same time, accepting the introduction of laws for homosexual pseudo-marriage. Sodomy is not being thought of as a sin that cries to God for vengeance but is diffused in seminaries, colleges, ecclesiastical universities and even inside the Sacred Walls of the Vatican itself.
...Liber Gomorrhianus reminds us that there is something worse than moral vice practiced and theorized. It is the silence that should speak, the abstention that should intervene, the bond of complicity that is established among the wicked and of those, who with the pretext of avoiding scandal are silent, and, by being silent, consent. Graver still, is the acceptance of homosexuality by churchmen, thought of as a “positive” tension towards the good, worthy of pastoral care and juridical protection and not as an abominable sin.
Great letter!