Pope Francis’s Vow of Poverty — for All

National Review ^ | 06/19/2015 | by RUPERT DARWALL

[Rapscallion]

This pope is a piker. He does not even have the backbone to address faith and morals as members of his Church used to expect. Instead he is a political pope under the influence of political correctness and the New Dork Times.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

They need to free Kaczynski. The Pope, apparently, is the Unabomber.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Worse than I even imagined. He is not a well-intentioned clergyman falling prey to fake science. Not even a typical Argentine airing his suspicions of capitalism. This thing literally reads like an OWS screed. Our Church may never recover from his hitching our wagon to this Communist mule.

[Tulane]

This pope consistently reminds me of why I left the Catholic church. Did it years ago, and never looked back. Many of my friends are catholic, nothing against those good people. But the cover up of pedophilia was too much for me.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

This will be great for rural areas as Catholics follow the Pope’s wisdom and abandon cities en mass for a new life in the country - and flood the Farmers Only dating site looking for mates.

They’ll also have more time for all the chores when they abandon social media!

[Rapscallion]

But the cover up of pedophilia was too much for me.

Me too. They cannot clean it up because they are hip-deep in it themselves. They need a special prosecutor.

[pgkdan]

even if alarmist scientists had not misinformed him that the planet had been warming in recent decades, when there has been little or no warming for nearly two decades.

I don't believe that he's been misinformed. The info that 'global warming' is bunk is pervasive. I think he's just grabbed climate change as a convenient cudgel with which to attack the west and capitalism in general.

[rdcbn]

In 1971, Pope Paul VI had spoken of an “ecological catastrophe” caused by the explosive growth of industrial civilization and stressed the urgent need for “a radical change in the conduct of humanity.” That change didn’t happen — and neither did the catastrophe.

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This is a demonstrably false statement.

Radical changes did take place and the environment is much cleaner today than it was in the 1970s.

In some areas, the emissions out of a modern cars tailpipe than the air going in the intake.

In the 1970s, smog was so bad in LA you could not see the mountains and your eyes burned if you were not adapted.

These days the air is clean and visibility is unlimited.

Same with Europe and Japan.

China, on the other hand, is a disaster.

Who is responsible for the massive clean up?

The same industrial and business groups the Pope is demonizing and trying to undermine.

Not only is the Pope wrong in his analysis, his hatred of capitalism and business is clouding his judgment on how to properly prevent new pollution and how to clean up existing solution in the environment.

Only a prosperous and technologically advanced society has both the tools and the surplus wealth to provide for an environmentally clean society.

[Alex Murphy]

“The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth,” Pope Francis tells us in his encyclical Laudato si’. The encyclical had climate alarmists in a swoon for the pope’s deep dive into climate policy and taking a swing at skeptics for denial and obstructionism. But the encyclical has the merit of honesty in not maintaining any pretense of objectivity and balance. “Our goal is not to amass information or to satisfy curiosity” — the pope writes in an allusion to the disinterested quest for scientific knowledge — “but rather to become painfully aware, to dare to turn what is happening to the world into our own personal suffering and thus to discover what each of us can do about it.”

[livius]

This is not an encyclical, it’s an elderly leftist’s vanity manifesto.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They cannot clean it up because they are hip-deep in it themselves. They need a special prosecutor.

Their response has been to force guys like me, married 25 years with grown children, who volunteer as an usher 2 hours per week, to undergo hours of pointless training and invasive police background checks.

[Buckeye McFrog]

In Pittsburgh in the 1940’s we had many days where it was dark at noontime, due to all of the coal smoke.

In the 1960’s we were dumping raw sewage from five cities directly into Lake Erie.

THAT is what I regard as sinfully bad stewardship. We do not do things like that anymore.

[HLPhat]

>>Our Church may never recover from his hitching our wagon to this Communist mule.

The Communist wagon was always hitched the Jesuit’s mule.

http://www.google.com/#q=Jesuit+Marxism

They’re the original pigs in the Farm House.

[FiddlePig]

His call for “bold cultural revolution” is right out of Mao’s “Little Red Book”. Who needs Scripture when you have Das Kapital? Pope Francis (former?) Vicar of Christ has now placed his hope for salvation in the works of men… a centralized top-down all-powerful global political system. God is fired and Karx Marx hired! The church now to be replaced with a “global political authority”. This is awful! As I see it we are heading for essentially Tower of Babel II.

[WayneS]

We need to revoke Catholic Church’s tax exempt status in the United States.

The pope has no business involving himself in partisan politics.

[WayneS]

We need to revoke Catholic Church’s tax exempt status in the United States.

The pope has no business involving himself in partisan politics.

[WayneS]

He’s one of the worst encyclical salesman ever employed by the Vatican.

[Buckeye McFrog]

My late uncle was a Jesuit. He was far from a Communist.

Granted I can’t speak for the rest of his order.

[HLPhat]

I’ve seen enough M.B.A. indoctrinated products from the local Jesuit brain-works factory to recognize what they’re selling.

They’re the original state-established/establishing manipulative pigs in the farm house.