Posted on 12/29/2014 5:11:50 PM PST by ebb tide
You know the Catholic Church is in trouble when the left-wing Guardian refers to Francis as the “superman pope.” He didn’t earn this dubious honor just by brokering Obama’s embrace of the communist slave state in Cuba. He has promoted state-inflicted poverty by attacking economic freedom and is now pushing the global warming hoax:
In 2015, the pope will issue a lengthy message on the subject to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, give an address to the UN general assembly and call a summit of the world’s main religions.
The reason for such frenetic activity, says Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, chancellor of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, is the pope’s wish to directly influence next year’s crucial UN climate meeting in Paris, when countries will try to conclude 20 years of fraught negotiations with a universal commitment to reduce emissions.
Reducing emissions reduces our standard of living. It does not reduce temperatures, as if they needed reducing. The global warming hoax has already been definitively debunked. According to the bogus theory it is based on, skyrocketing carbon emissions should result in corresponding temperatures. Yet temperatures have remained level for the past 18 years.
Nonetheless, the hoax is still seen as useful by those with hard left political agendas, who see it as a pretext to impose oligarchical collectivist authoritarianism. Except during extreme weather events that will happen no matter what, these power grabbers do not have the climate on their side. But they do have the Pope.
Following a visit in March to Tacloban, the Philippine city devastated in 2012 by typhoon Haiyan, the pope will publish a rare encyclical on climate change and human ecology. Urging all Catholics to take action on moral and scientific grounds, the document will be sent to the world’s 5,000 Catholic bishops and 400,000 priests, who will distribute it to parishioners.
According to Vatican insiders, Francis will meet other faith leaders and lobby politicians at the general assembly in New York in September, when countries will sign up to new anti-poverty and environmental goals.
It is no accident that the “anti-poverty” (i.e., anti-capitalism) and environmental goals are mentioned together. Free market capitalism has done vastly more to lift people out of poverty than any other system in history. Consequently, destroying it so as to replace it with Soviet-style serfdom requires more than just tired and empty rhetoric about the poor, who will be far more numerous and far more poor if leftists are able to prevent the creation of wealth.
In recent months, the pope has argued for a radical new financial and economic system to avoid human inequality and ecological devastation. In October he told a meeting of Latin American and Asian landless peasants and other social movements: “An economic system centred on the god of money needs to plunder nature to sustain the frenetic rhythm of consumption that is inherent to it.
“The system continues unchanged, since what dominates are the dynamics of an economy and a finance that are lacking in ethics. It is no longer man who commands, but money. Cash commands.
“The monopolising of lands, deforestation, the appropriation of water, inadequate agro-toxics are some of the evils that tear man from the land of his birth. Climate change, the loss of biodiversity and deforestation are already showing their devastating effects in the great cataclysms we witness,” he said.
It is hard to say who would applaud this sophomoric rhetoric more enthusiastically: Al Gore or Karl Marx.
Note the emphasis on “human inequality.” People cannot be both equal and free, at least not in an economic sense. Holding everyone but the unavoidable ruling elite to a lowest common denominator has never increased the standard of living for the masses and never will.
The days of Jean Paul II confronting communist tyranny have never been more missed.
The cheering leftists at the Guardian refer to “Francis’s environmental radicalism.” Given its explicit elevation of the nonhuman over the human, there has never been a more un-Christian ideology than environmental radicalism. The Pope praising the Devil would not be more appalling.
People of weak faith believe that Christianity needs to get with the times or become obsolete. This will not be accomplished by chaining the Catholic Church to a hoax that an increasing percentage of the population can see through to its malevolent authoritarian objectives.
‘So because you are lukeWARM, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.’ Rev 3:16
Again, why is this excuse used every time? Or are you implying his assistants are speaking falsely?
He’s not being slandered. He is going to talk about global warming, and this will be the substance of his “environmental encyclical.” I read the Spanish and Italian language press, and this has been out there for a long time.
Please trust in Our Lord. St Peter was to be the Rock - which meant that he would support the Church and defend the teachings of the Church, as they had come from Our Lord - and the successor of St Peter has usually done this. If he doesn’t, he is no longer the authentic successor and can be deposed.
I don’t think Pope Francis has risen to this level, but some of the things that are being said through his surrogates...which he doesn’t reject... are certainly heretical and could bring bad times and persecution onto those members of the Church who stay with the deposit of faith.
Just pray hard and hang on. When the extraordinary council met in the 4th century to depose Pope Marcellinus (because he had offered incense to the emperor), he resigned voluntarily, repented publicly, and was reinstated. He died a martyr a few years later.’
So you never know what’s going to happen. But the important thing is the Faith, which develops the teachings given to us by Our Lord. And extends His presence for all.
Is he wanting an unearned Nobel Peace Prize, like Obama, Al Gore, and Yasser Arafat?
It’s coming, alas. And I doubt that anybody except the UN and the URI will like what it says.
Pope Francis won’t be writing it, since he is not very well spoken in either of his two languages (Italian and Spanish). Argentinians from his region speak a non-standard Spanish that is basically an Italianized conglomerate language, even including its pronunciation.
He’s also not a very educated or cultivated person, meaning he doesn’t give a darn about the intellectual or artistic tradition that is the expression of the Faith everywhere (except in Argentina, apparently).
Just rely on the words of Our Lord and those of 2,000 years of Christian thinkers and saints.
97% of scientists believe in man made global warming, what percentage do not believe in God?
This pope is a loon.
How did Frank get past the conservative Cardinals? His history couldn’t have been so different than his papacy, could it?
The “warming” he will have is eternal flames
“Why is this excuse used every single time he says something unpopular?”
I’m unsure of what you mean.
I wonder how he will rationalize this vs the positions on abortion, birth control, and so on. Should be interesting.
I don’t think that “reasonable” environmental concern is incongruous with being conservative. In fact, it seems to mesh fairly well. The problems start when some are asked to conserve/sacrifice more than others.
“Pope: Climate Change a serious ethical and moral responsibility”
I think it's a pity how ready so many are to see the latter when it's the former that is the normal course of things.
Nonetheless, I agree that he says many "spinnable" things but I have also often found clarity having looked further into them.
When it's all said and done, I recall that we really have a "spare" (as it were) and I'm sure B16 is praying effectively.
As for me, I would be lying if I said that anything that brings us nearer to the wrapping-up-of-it-all I am ready, willing and eager for (I fancy myself so, anyway).
Pax.
The apotheosis of nature.
Someone has set Pope Frankie up with Obama’s teleprompters, already pre-programmed with Bammy’s leftist drivel.
Don't you see that? Do you believe them when they tell you Barack Obama is The One? Do you believe them when they tell you BHO's a "christian"? Do you believe them on Benghazi? Lois Lerner? Must I list all the reasons you know they are the mouthpiece of the liar?
Thank you. Again, I’ll wait for the encyclical. I wouldn’t trust Vatican media any more than CNN.
Do you believe the Pope is credible? That’s who I was quoting.
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