Beam me to Planet Gore !
From Excerpts from Message for World Day of Peace
In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity it is important for everyone to be committed at his or her proper level, working to overcome the prevalence of particular interests. A special role in raising awareness and in formation belongs to the different groups present in civil society and to the non-governmental organisations which work with determination and generosity for the spread of ecological responsibility, responsibility which should be ever more deeply anchored in respect for "human ecology".
The Church has a responsibility towards creation, and she considers it her duty to exercise that responsibility in public life, in order to protect earth, water and air as gifts of God the Creator meant for everyone, and above all to save mankind from the danger of self-destruction. ... Our duties towards the environment flow from our duties towards the person, considered both individually and in relation to others. Hence I readily encourage efforts to promote a greater sense of ecological responsibility which, as I indicated in my Encyclical "Caritas in Veritate", would safeguard an authentic "human ecology" and thus forcefully reaffirm the inviolability of human life at every stage and in every condition, the dignity of the person and the unique mission of the family, where one is trained in love of neighbour and respect for nature.
On the other hand, a correct understanding of the relationship between man and the environment will not end by absolutising nature or by considering it more important than the human person. If the Church's Magisterium expresses grave misgivings about notions of the environment inspired by eco-centrism and bio-centrism, it is because such notions eliminate the difference of identity and worth between the human person and other living things. In the name of a supposedly egalitarian vision of the "dignity" of all living creatures, such notions end up abolishing the distinctiveness and superior role of human beings. They also open the way to a new pantheism tinged with neo-paganism, which would see the source of man's salvation in nature alone, understood in purely naturalistic terms.
Catholic ping!
He should go on to say, that voting for pro abortion/pro choice politicians (no difference btw) that you do not have the Spirit of Christ within you.
He will not say that however, because he is afraid many will leave the Church, meaning less money in the coffers.
I’d be curious to read the whole article, but it certainly looks as if AP is distorting it in typical fashion.
I would imagine that the Pope is saying that humans come first. I.e., you can’t abort babies by the millions and control population with brutal laws because you think it’s the “green” thing to do.
Second, he is presumably saying that, as suggested in Genesis and elsewhere, human beings are stewards of nature or of the environment, and should treat it accordingly. God put us in charge of the lower orders, but a good king or steward works for the welfare of those with whom he is charged.
Any good conservative should be an environmentalist. It’s just that we have to care for nature wisely, and without getting fooled by every silly, fashionable leftist idiocy that comes down the pike.
What's the point of the successor to Peter wallowing about in the sty with the swine who despise Christianity?
As with the past encyclical this one is larded with newspeak!
No one has the right to food. You have the right to buy food, grow food, borrow food, beg for food, grow your own food, kill your own food, work for food, trade your property, goods, services and/or time for food.
But no one has the right TO food. No one has the right to walk into a supermarket, restaurant or someone else' home anfd help them selves to food that isn't theirs.
So - is this “God’s Will” being spoken by the Pontiff? Will this become a teaching of the Sacred Magisterium?
Or is the Pope just late jumping on the PC lie train?
Gives me such bold confidence...
The encyclical is magnificent; Green Patriarch and now the Green Pope. Here’s a link to the letter:
The 1930’s Southern Agrarians lived too soon.
The Final Word on Global Warming;
Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
God runs the show, not man.
No, he flatout says “environmental problems ... are MORAL crises.”. Behave morally and the “crisis” subsides.
Jawohl, Herr Ratzinger!