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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>> I honestly don’t think this Pope is wildly intelligent.
Far be it from me to argue that point with you. :-)
Admittedly, I live in a redneck rural area-but there are lots of Catholics here and we most definitely think that this pope is a communist, clueless and we don’t take any of his unscientific, ridiculous pronouncements or encyclicals seriously-he can talk all he wants and we don’t vote liberal. Catholics at FR don’t vote left that I’ve seen, either.
http://www.philosophy-religion.org/handouts/pdfs/Copernicus-rev.pdf
That doesn’t change the facts of the Catholic vote.
i don’t think he knows. i think he is insulated by the bureaucracy of the vatican and is not aware of the backgrounds of all of the official visitors he meets or that the vatican sponsors.
no pope could ever deliberately push for policies that lead to population control, but that’s not to say that a pope cannot be duped into supporting policies that can be twisted by others into justifications for population control.
i’m Catholic and i’m terribly disappointed in this pope. i truly believe he doesn’t understand the political ramifications beyond the vatican of the things he says and does. that’s his fault. he needs better advisers on such matters and he needs to learn not to speak extemporaneously about matters he’s not well-informed on. the good will he feels towards others is often not reciprocated and media that is hostile to Catholic teachings is always eager to use his own words against him and against the church.
Aren’t we methodically addressing ‘climate change’ or our need to get off of fossil fuel anyway? Speeding up the pace looks like an economic disaster - especially for developed countries - seems like insanity and now the Catholic church is involved.
The Catholic Church will pay a huge price for this position.
As for Pope Francis. Poor Francis. He has been duped by those much craftier than he.
come now...he knows exactly what he is talking about...my own fear is that Francis represents prototype for a future, long serving pontiff, probably a third world native who will instill the ‘Spirit of Vatican II’ before the progressives of the 1960’s die off...one who will make Francis look like Aquinas...and then, it will be my duty to walk away from the Faith...
As opposed to your precise, thoughtful and relevant to what posts? How vivid.
You are a propagandizer of things you don’t understand, don’t intend to understand, and then pepper your bitterness and your crap biases with a few poll numbers, which make you a self made genius, who contributes nothing ever to any diologue anywhere, but for your signature garden variety horse waste.
Copernicus was never ordained a priest although he took minor orders and studied Canon law. All of his work was done through the Catholic Church.
The rest of my list were all priests. The list is quite long.
Like I said you don’t know what you are talking about. Catholics basically mirror society at large. A small majority of white Catholics vote Republican while about 40% identify as Democrats. Hispanic Catholics vote about 60-40 for dems. These are well known and researched stats as opposed to false claims that “Catholics vote left”
MrT5 was career military, so I’ve traveled a bit and have attended plenty of Catholic churches, Roman and otherwise-damned few of them are fully obedient-especially in places that are isolated-and those don’t have empty pews, either.
Catholics in civilized places don’t consider the pope’s word the only word-other than in some 3d world or socialist countries-like maybe Argentina-where the church only exists because the government allows it to as an extension of their dogma-it is all that is allowed, because those are not free countries. This pope apparently does not understand people-Catholic or otherwise-who live in free countries, and do not fall to the ground when he speaks...
You do not approve of Catholics?
He's not stupid and he's not naive.
Galileo was a heliocentric kind of guy. A geocentric “denier” so to speak. The consensus was wrong them and is wrong now. And the Church is once again on the wrong side of the argument.
And yet, you did. And you simply ignored the part you couldn’t address, and I noted your non-reply. Which continues.
If by done, you mean "suppressed."
Can you translate that into English?
Are you talking about global warming or has the Pope just claimed that the sun revolves around the earth?
And if I run into someone who believes any liberal crap-at Mass, a picnic or other activity, I will do my best to show them how wrong they are-I’m willing to do my part to change their thinking.
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