Posted on 10/01/2010 6:50:23 AM PDT by Antioch
In a letter to parishes dated October 4-- the memorial of St. Francis of Assisi-- Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles will announce the formation of the Archdiocesan Creation Sustainability Ministry, according to the electronic newsletter of the Catholic Climate Covenant.
We exhort our faith communities and all our brothers and sisters to take the St. Francis Pledge, an initiative that urges Catholics nationwide to pray for, learn about, assess, act and advocate for populations affected by climate change, especially those that are most vulnerable, Cardinal Mahony adds.
The St. Francis Pledge is a promise and a commitment by Catholic individuals, families, parishes, organizations and institutions to live our faith by protecting Gods Creation and advocating on behalf of people in poverty who face the harshest impacts of global climate change, according to the Catholic Climate Covenant, an initiative of the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change. In marked contrast to some environmental organizations, the Catholic Climate Covenant states that it holds to an authentically Catholic Pro-Life position which uncompromisingly excludes abortion, artificial contraception, and/or sterilization.
The coalition, in turn, is a partnership of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, and ten other organizations.
Catholic social teaching on safeguarding the environment is summarized in Chapter 10 of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, which was issued in 2004. Pope Benedict further reflected on the topic in his 2010 World Day of Peace message.
Hey! Easy on the testosterone. Actually the analogy is fine because hospitals don’t treat sin, which is, inter alia, a defect of will.
I don’t understand how a bunch of idiotic cardinals weakens my point. The Lod chose a lying poltroon for the first pope (as we see it.). Considering that I marvel less at the stupidity of bishops and such than I do at the excellence of the writings of JP2 and PapaBenXVI.
Tell you what -
It’s my statement - so why don’t you not tell me what I can and cannot say.
If you think you can support that the Church isn’t left - go for it. Data please. You are willing to admit “many Bishops “lean” to the left - what a joke. Many Bishops DEFINE the left.
I have already presented data showing the average Catholic voting more for OBAMA than the average american. (Not even correcting for the fact that 20+% of Obamas votes are just the black monolithic vote. Discount those - and Catholics are far left relative to everyone else.)
Then I looked up the supporting data for how this is not an isolated rogue Cardinal, but in fact formal Church policy.
So you can name a few names. I can name that many pedophiles and their enablers - we’ve skipped right over that. Sorry - but it is real.
This isn’t some fabricated story from the MSM. This is a reported story - a real event.
Sometimes - everything IS as it seems. You can deny all you wish - but data is what you need. Correct me with facts - not your opinion.
Um, how is the environment not a "collective good" (even if you don't like the word, and I'm not crazy about it either)? Most of us get our water from a public reservoir and we'd just as soon it wasn't contaminated; and most of us just breathe the air that's available -- though a relatively few invalids do carry a "private" supply.
Granted, the excesses of the enviro-wackos are enough to drive normal people to ask "What's the environment ever done for me" and plaster "Nuke the whales!" bumper stickers on their cars. But those attitudes (if they were to be taken seriously and not as venting) are just as nutty.
All I can speak for is English, but there was Bible translation in the Old English period (say from the 9th century). The Old English Heptateuch survives, as well as Gospel translations. Probably some others too, and there is a poetic paraphrase of Judith. I don't know whether Paul was even attempted (for the reasons you adduce), but it's hard to tell how much there was because of the Norse invasions and the later despoiling of the monasteries under Henry VIII. As it is, the vast majority of Old English that survives (what there is of it) is in the West Saxon dialect -- almost nothing from the other dialects. (BTW, that's one reason Chaucer is so different -- IIRC, his dialect was the Kentish.)
Another nugget is that the Cyrillic alphabet was developed as a tool of conversion!
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