Posted on 10/09/2023 9:12:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When I was growing up and attending Catholic schools, I was taught that the pope is infallible.
But then I read Pope Francis’ updated encyclical letter last week, and now I can only conclude that at least this pope is fallible. In fact, the declaration is so filled with anti-Christian fallacies that one has to wonder whether we have a pope that is actually Catholic.
Pope Francis was full of doom and gloom as he warned that the Earth is “collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point” because of climate change. He takes a metaphorical ruler and whacks the knuckles of climate “skeptics” who are preventing the draconian/statist actions that are apparently necessary to cool the planet off. What comes next for the “deniers”? A knock on the door from the Spanish Inquisition.
The pope has given a new voice to the “blame America first” globalists and denounces Americans’ “irresponsible lifestyles” for the ruination of the planet.
What about China? Amazingly, the pope pointedly gives the world’s greatest polluter a free pass. He declares that “emissions per individual in the United States are about two times greater than those of individuals living in China, and about seven times greater than the average of the poorest countries.” This is naked appeasement to a country with some of the worst human rights violations on the planet. President Xi Jinping is loving life right now.
It’s also intentionally lying with twisted statistics. Yes, the U.S. has more emissions and uses more energy than many other nations, but that is because we produce far more output per capita than all other nations except China. It’s the reason the United States is the breadbasket of the world. Africa doesn’t use much energy. And that’s why it is a desperately poor continent. The solution isn’t for the U.S. to consume less energy, but for poor nations to have access to much more energy.
As Catholics, we are taught to help the least among us to help end poverty, hunger and deprivation, but the primary victims of the environmentalists’ crusade against fossil fuels will be those in the poorest nations of Africa and Asia — deprived of cheap and reliable power from coal and natural gas.
China, meanwhile, emits two times more greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere than America — but we are the problem, not them.
Worst of all, we now have a Vatican that has aligned itself with the radical “limits to growth” theology of leftist environmentalists. The radical greens view human beings as the problem, not the solution, which is contrary to Catholic dogma that there is dignity in every human life.
Has the Vatican forgotten that the more radical voices of climate change hysteria have come right out of the sinister population control movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when we were told that the world was running out of everything and that the only solution was fewer people? This movement led to some of the most barbaric government actions of modern times: forced abortions, mandatory sterilizations of women, and brutal one-child policies.
The theology in the Pope Francis letter called “Laudate Deum,” which means “Praise God,” is a direct contradiction of the teachings of our greatest pope in modern times, John Paul II, who magnificently declared that economic freedom and human ingenuity have always been the solutions to our planetary problems and the sometimes winds of change that Mother Nature throws at us. People, he reminded all Catholics, are the greatest resource.
Another way of saying this is that the Western world’s economic affluence and our advanced “lifestyles” haven’t held back the poor countries or jeopardized civilization. We have made life on Earth profoundly better for everyone. The pope’s call for energy poverty is a call for everyone to get poorer. That hardly seems to be a very Christian solution.
If climate change really is the existential threat that the pope sermonizes that it is, we will confront this challenge the way humans have combated every problem since the days when human life on Earth was nasty, brutish and short: We will harness human know-how and new-age technologies that will tame Mother Nature’s savage outbursts.
Thanks to the freedom agenda and scientific advances, deaths from natural disasters have fallen by 90% over the past 100 years. Has anyone in the Vatican told the pope that?
The Poop can shut it.
F that worthless piece of human garbage. Frankie is nothing more than a lowlife scumbag Marxist thug.
Not as bad as irresponsible pontificating
“Pope Francis Blames America First: Denounces Americans’ “irresponsible lifestyles” for the ruination of the planet.”
Hey Frank, baby, don’t sweat it, President Biden has your back. The days of Americans being fed and free are about to end, as the war mongering of the Neocons have finally been stuffed-back by Russia. It’s over for Americans now, and over for Europe.
Bergoglio isn’t a Christian.
He worships Ba’al and encourages those in his charge to do so as well.
On Raymond Arroyo’s The World Over tonight the analysts had to take off the gloves and fight back that the wimpy pronouncements at the Synod on Synodality about accepting acting upon same sex attraction and marriage after divorce if the person sort of in a way didn’t mean to be bad was beyond shocking.
One said holdouts who followed the rules will be bishops and priests who will be isolated and pressured from all sides to give up.
The Church has to split. What else can be done?
And my house does not look anything like the Vatican . . . I guess I need bigger and more elaborate.
The Pope is not supposed to be a doddering, bumbling and isolated fool like Biden.
Man made climate change is a worldwide hoax as part of a Leftist plan to reduce the power of the West and increase the communist Chinese and other Marxist regimes’ power.
It is NOT reality, it is a political strategy.
Only a naive fool would believe it (as your Dem relatives, friends, coworkers and neighbors.)
Since this isn’t the Religion Forum....F___ The Pope!
I was taught that the pope is infallible.
ONLY IN MATTERS OF FAITH.
Fake ass Obama Pope
Probably the most misunderstood tenet of the Catholic Faith. Here are the four absolute requirements for a Pope to teach infallibly:
1. The Pope must teach as supreme doctor (teacher) of the whole world.
2. The Pope must be defining a doctrine of faith or morals.
3. The Pope must make his intention known by clear words that he is defining
a doctrine contained in the deposit of faith, and binding upon the consciences of men.
4. The Pope must attach the sanction of anathema to the decree, either explicitly or implicitly.
Ref: https://catholicism.org/apologetics-infallibility.html
>> Here are the four absolute requirements for a Pope to teach infallibly:
So, does Bergoglio meet the four requirements? Or does he not?
“...the pope is infallible. “
Yeah, he is infallible. He is wrong about everything.
The Antipope a-hole continues to run his mouth and ruin his church. Anything yet from the Antipope regarding the Hamas mass-murders?
>> Fake ass Obama Pope
Not meaning to diss our Catholic brothers and sisters... but popes are MEN. Frail flesh. I don’t care how many “cardinals” (some of which are queer these days) burn how much white smoke “signifying” “divine” approval of the pope. Popes are still flesh-and-blood men.
>> He is wrong about everything.
If it truly is *everything*, there is value in that! :-)
“Pope Bergoglio The Anti-Righteous”. You can set your watch by his wrongness!
Demented phony imitation pope who has a lot in common with those following Pius and Vatican II.
My Polish Grandfather was amazed to see a Polish Pope in his lifetime. As a family we loved it and as a person I grew to appreciate JPII.
This idiot in the Vatican is nothing more than a hateful politically motivated socialist in the least, more likely communist.
He was chosen to demoralize the faithful and destroy, demoralize Christians.
I know in my heart that God is large and in Charge…this guy is no more than a pimple on the butt of an ass.
He is of no consequence and will not be remembered for anything he has wrought. He is like the tribes of Israel who worshipped Baal and Astarte in pkace of the most high God of the Creation who then meted out punishment on them and their progeny.
Those in the Catholic faith who are challenging him are heroes as the fake pope tries to destroy them.
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