Posted on 06/16/2015 4:24:00 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Members of the Cult of Climastrology, mostly comprised of far left Progressives (nice fascists) are thrilled by what the Pope will supposedly say regarding Hotcoldwetdry
(Guardian) Pope Francis will this week call for changes in lifestyles and energy consumption to avert the “unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem” before the end of this century, according to a leaked draft of a papal encyclical. In a document released by an Italian magazine on Monday, the pontiff will warn that failure to act would have “grave consequences for all of us”.
Francis also called for a new global political authority tasked with “tackling … the reduction of pollution and the development of poor countries and regions”. His appeal echoed that of his predecessor, pope Benedict XVI, who in a 2009 encyclical proposed a kind of super-UN to deal with the world’s economic problems and injustices.
So, more global governance, more control of people’s lives. Authoritarianism.
According to the lengthy draft, which was obtained and published by L’Espresso magazine, the Argentinean pope will align himself with the environmental movement and its objectives. While accepting that there may be some natural causes of global warming, the pope will also state that climate change is mostly a man-made problem.
“Humanity is called to take note of the need for changes in lifestyle and changes in methods of production and consumption to combat this warming, or at least the human causes that produce and accentuate it,” he wrote in the draft. “Numerous scientific studies indicate that the greater part of the global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases … given off above all because of human activity.”
Will Pope Francis, and all those who are squeeing over this pronouncment, agree to give up their own modern lifestyles? No fossil fuels, no ice makers, only buying local, handwashing clothes, etc? How much power does Vatican City use? The encyclical blames fossils directly as part of the problem? Will the Pope cancel his upcoming fossil fueled airplane trips?
The leak has frustrated the Vatican’s elaborate rollout of the encyclical – a papal letter to bishops – on Thursday. Its release had been planned to come before the pope’s trip to the US, where he is due to address the United Nations as well as a joint meeting of Congress.
Huh. So he planned to blame fossil fuels right before taking that fossil fueled airplane trip. Weird, right?
The pope will also single out those obstructing solutions. In an apparent reference to climate-change deniers, the draft states: “The attitudes that stand in the way of a solution, even among believers, range from negation of the problem, to indifference, to convenient resignation or blind faith in technical solutions.”
I wonder if Pope Francis has ever heard the statement “you catch more flies with honey than vinegar”? Of course, if he’s still taking fossil fueled flights, that would make him a denier, as it would all the other CoC members who haven’t gone carbon neutral.
I wonder if Pope Francis can explain this:
Doesn’t look like much, does it? A flat line going back from May 2016. If one continued back, they’d see a spike for around 16 years. Then a long slight cooling period. Then a big spike. Then a pause. All the way back to the Little Ice Age. The current Pause mostly invalidates the computer models of doomy warming, hence the reason for the 70+ excuses, along with the “adjustments” to past data.
But, hey, if Pope Francis is really into the loss of personal freedom to the Cult of Climastrology Progressives (nice fascists) based on junk science, he should start in his own life.
He had better try to save his own soul first. Those popes before him and subsequent to Vatican II think they’re in a steam bath.
More interesting is the question of who leaked it. I suspect a full-on donnybrook is going on amongst the cardinals inside those Vatican walls.
And when has he done that, by actually preaching the gospel of Scripture?
If he ever knew the way.
Tons of old churches are still central steam heated with oil boilers. Whole properties just leaking heat all winter long.
He does hold two titles, so with which does he speak?
The Catholic religious one or the Roman political one?
The growth of the global middle class is one of the biggest stories of the past generation. By the end of this decade, China's middle class alone will exceed the entire population of the U.S. The OECD projects that by mid-century, over 80% of global middle class purchasing power will be in Asia, led by China and India, the two fastest growing major economies in the world. We are heading towards a world in which, for the first time in human history, poverty will be the exception, not the norm. The Church didn't do this. Economic growth in market economies is doing it.
None of this is understood by leftists, whose goal is power, and whose solution to every problem is government control, income redistribution, and the rationing of scarcity by a comfortable, self-perpetuating elite.
I won’t hold my breath waiting for his directive to Bishops and Pastors go get rid of the car and start taking the bus.
The pope must also demand that those sinful “riders” stop making donations to the Catholic Church — weekly and otherwise — because the Church will no longer accept money from “climate sinners”.
The pope is OK with abortion and pro-abortion voters and pro-gay voters and the fact that fully half if not more RCs are democrats. Actually, this justifies them all.
So we can change “is the pope a Catholic” to “is the pope a socialist”?
You must be anti-Catholic to post “facts” that will confuse those who read what the pope claims.
The weather has been changing for as long as Earth has been around.
Once upon a time there was much more CO2 in the air and it was much hotter and of course the world was covered with rain forest teeming with more life per square foot than we have ever seen.
So, consider me doubtful about this end of the world stuff
e don’t know his ass from a hole in the ground
he is meddling where he has no business
he should stick to trying to save souls
why does this pope feel the need to weigh in on a political issue such as global warming???
Agreed, stick to saving souls and praying and preaching theology. But preach Catholic theology, not Al Gore’s global warming theology.
In the 1980s, the U.S. President and the Pope teamed with other world leaders to bring down the Soviet Union and communism. Contrast that to today, as the current pope and White House occupant align in common cause to destroy this country.
It’s amazing to think how far the papacy has fallen from the days of John Paul The Great.
Climate change has happened for eons.
There have been numerous ice ages during earth’s history. And periods of global warming ended those ice ages.
During the last ice age, Chicago was buried under a mile of ice. Did all that ice melt because Cro-Magnon Man had coal fired power plants? Or did it melt due to natural cycles which man has no control of, and no full understanding of even today???
The Catholic Church has always been oligarchical… top down authority. Such is where “divine right if kings” came from. The Holy Bible was secondary to Papal decrees… in fact Jon Huss, William Tyndale were burned at the stake for the crime of translating Scripture into English… all culminated in the Protestant Reformation and the concept of individual sovereignty, that formed the basis for The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution… the people are sovereign and the government subservient (now that’s radical!). According to “Christian Manifesto” author Francis Schaeffer, America would have never happened without the Reformation. The Catholic support of top-down authority is long and more in line with socialist/Marxist thinking, than is Protestantism. Where it differs is in areas of abortion, personal morality, birth control and opposing the atheism of Communism (John Paul II), but even that is wavering these days… Fire Jesus, hire Karl? O Lord please rescue your Church!
Our Church recently put out a chart demonstrating that weekly Mass attendance in our Parish has declined by nearly 1000 since 2010.
Some of that is due to older Parishoners dying off and their Millenial grandkids not showing up to replace them.
But for the first time the material acknowledges that “migration to non-denominational churches” is a factor.
I suspect this Encyclical will only accelerate that trend. Whenever I attend any sort of event at another church I keep meeting people who tell me “I used to be Catholic”.
What shall our poor, FR Catholics DO?
Follow their Spiritual Leader; or rebel and follow their own politics?
Power corrupts.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It could be has been worse...
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
He should stick to leading people to Jesus!
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And when has he done that, by actually preaching the gospel of Scripture?
So true. This pope is an activist.
He seems to be seeking the approval of men.
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