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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The pope is playing a game of diversion.
Ignore the years long running child abuse scandal and concentrate of global warming rubbish...
I’d tell the Pope to go read up on what effects the Sun, that big glowing ball in the sky, has on our planet and all the planets. He’s not giving me any marching orders.
That's what the Osteens of the world are for.
Me too.
Good way to lose tax exempt status in the USA
As evidenced by its stance on some political issues, the Catholic Church (RCC) in USA has shown that it isn’t up to speed on the Constitution, particularly the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
And now the RCC is showing, as evidenced by Genesis 8:22, that it’s probably not up to speed on the Scriptures either. In that verse, God assures that cold and hot, summer and winter will never cease for as long as the earth endures.
I know one Catholic who thinks we need clown Popes these days like we need another set of Borgias.
Well, on the bright side, at least here’s one story from MSN-BC that doesn’t portray the Pope giving direction to US Catholics as some scary call to religious war.
Just like all US Catholics follow Pope’s ‘marching orders’ on abortion and birth control?
Then why follow the hierarchy?
Shepard leading flock to slaughter?
A lot of what he has said has been taken out of context by those in the media that would like to distort Catholic teaching. Yes, we FR Catholics know that this Pope is a Socialist, and yes, this latest encyclical is as wrong as it is out-of-place for him to be wading into such matters. But that doesn't mean his words are never twisted by the Left.
“The majority of the Catholic denomination, ARE liberals”
You need to learn more about Catholics. The major group that stood up to the Communists were Catholics. Saint John Paul II and others were the most important figures in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the defeat of Communism in Europe. This was at a time when liberals and Democrats said that Communism was the way of the future and that the US should give in to every Soviet demand.
Baptist Jimmy Carter believed that the United States should be weak and appease Communists and third world dictators.
Catholics have also stood up against the abortion industry and the attacks on the traditional family.
Today, however, the hierarchy has been infiltrated by evil.
>>The Pope has been turned and millions will die if he is successful in instituting a world government that will shut down progress and will allocate scarcity.
Perhaps billions. I can’t believe that he is that stupid, so this has to be his plan. Or does he really think that the developed world will voluntarily plunge itself into third world poverty and that the third world’s standard of “living” won’t go down even further?
I do believe he has frequently been mistranslated by the media, eager to put their own spin on things.
But the Encyclical was officially translated by the Vatican. He does not get a pass on this one.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was always a left-leaning populist, and it was hardly a secret. A better question to ask would be why was he elected. This also opens up a conspiracy theory: who was it that wanted to replace the Pope before the Pope Benedict XVI vacated the post due to his death? It becomes more and more apparent that Benedict XVI left not because of his poor health - he is still working! Perhaps someone made it known to him that he office must become vacant, and there are at least two ways for that to happen...
Definitely; I watched that grifter face a question about homosexuality a few years ago, and he basically refused to answer.
Our parish priest is a vocal critic of the pope, as are many others-and this place is remote enough that he can speak out-to his very appreciative parishioners, of which I am one-and FYI, the money that goes into the collection basket in individual churches is used only to maintain that church and the priest’s residence-unless there is a separate special collection for some other purpose-we get an accurate accounting of the funds every year.
Historically speaking, Catholics-or those of any other denomination-don’t usually leave their faith over a bad church leader, unless their faith was less than strong in the first place-the pope is not God-there have been worse popes-especially in the Middle Ages-the Church survived them and it will survive this one, too...
Useful idiots.
None that I’ve talked to are buying it
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