Posted on 06/18/2015 1:22:58 PM PDT by detective
Leaders of the Catholic Church in America took their “marching orders” from the Pope’s encyclical on Thursday, fanning out to Congress and the White House to push for action on climate change.
The high-level meetings offered a first glimpse of a vast and highly organised effort by the leadership of America’s nearly 80 million Catholics to turn the Pope’s moral call for action into reality.
“It is our marching orders for advocacy,” Joseph Kurtz, the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archbishop of Louisville, said. “It really brings about a new urgency for us.”
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I'm not sure how you've gotten that from anything I've written.
My issue is entirely with what the pope has said, and I don't believe it is an accident, naivete, or mistranslation. He is an intelligent man from an elite order surrounded by the elite of his church. This was not done casually, and he understands full well the tremendously damaging uses to which his pronouncements can be put and carefully backs them off -- as all Leftist weasels do -- whenever there is any pushback. That's 100% of my position.
I have both Roman Catholics and Orthodox Catholics in my family, and quite possibly the fastest way to get yourself a punch in the mouth is to refer to the Orthodox as a "sect."
LOL, wow, you are just raging insanely.
The English meaning was pretty clear to anybody without a reading comprehension problem: the church has a history of embracing bad science.
Good, me too. The most important thing is to first let conservatives know how Catholics vote, and educate them on the purpose and fulfillment of the 1965 Immigration Act for the American left.
Of course I know what I’m talking about, the Catholics vote majority left, as do the non-Christian religions, atheists, and homosexuals, and agnostics and others.
The majority of non-Catholic Christians, vote republican.
If only Francis would go full Jim Jones...
“...and then, it will be my duty to walk away from the Faith...” ———
To whom will you go?
The pope is not the Church, in himself. We have suffered worse. We know we are destined to suffer even more.
Buck up, or leave. Holy ground is for girded soldiers, not fear filled observers.
Coming from you that must mean you’re done, or cleaning your toe nails.
It is one thing to switch denominations, another thing entirely, to walk away from the Christian faith.
Please don’t comment if you haven’t followed the sub-thread.
fair enough...sorry for any confusion...
OK, I’ll stipulate that the damage from misinformed policy turns not on papal infallibility-which everyone knows is strictly limited in its application,(though many on this thread pretend not to know this) but on the fact that his stature gives it undue influence...
but this is obvious on its face, is it not...? I’ve not seen any post asserting the primacy of infallibility...
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
To whom will you go?
ever heard of the SSPX...?
The pope is not the Church, in himself.
nah...really...?
Buck up, or leave
the smart individual leaves a deficient worship...and the unintelligent one stays...
You represent your Pope and your church very well.
It is one thing to switch denominations, another thing entirely, to walk away from the Christian faith.
were I to do so, I would have my reasons...but you have made an inference about my statement that I never implied...even a cursory glance would confirm that I was referring to a secularized modern Catholic Church that I am afraid is on the horizon...
I thought the evil pope was that pope preceding the final pope, the last pope being a good man. Do I have the prophecy wrong? Thanks.
As I've expressed elsewhere, I'm fine with developing alternative energy. I just don't think that in the interim any of the available forms of energy is 'sinful'. They really depend on availability and cost relative to the wealth of the buyer.
Ezekiel 15:6 "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
The pope is/has become a socialist, living in Argentina, so no, his encyclical is not accidental at all. I think it borders on the apostate, but that is just my opinion.
I’ve been to a Maronite church a few times, and to church with a friend who belongs to the Greek Orthodox church-I’ve used the word “sect” when talking about our respective churches, and he didn’t say it was offensive-probably being polite-so thanks for telling me it offends.
If a major schism happens over all this, I would not be surprised at all-and I doubt church historians will deal kindly with Francis, whether that happens or not...
When you said “walk away from the Faith...” I thought that meant the Christian faith.
and I doubt church historians will deal kindly with Francis, whether that happens or not...
you are wrong...oh, it may very well be that historians in the distant future will cast a critical eye at Francis...but in the first few months after Francis’ papacy ends, the Church will fall all over itself to canonize him, much in the manner of JPII, all in an attempt to validate the 1960’s apostasy that was termed the ‘spirit of Vat II’...
the Church spent a great deal of its ecclesiastical capital in its deliberate misinterpretation of the Vat II documents...and it aims to make the ‘investment’ pay off...
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