Posted on 03/14/2014 9:51:15 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
I am the editor of our tiny monthly parish newsletter. My pastor, with whom I have a pretty fair relationship, has just directed me to devote the April issue to Earth Day, the Environment, and Climate Change. He included a link to a compostable, shovel-ready statement by Bp Stephen Blair. I am aghast.
I don't wish to fight my pastor about this --- being a busy man, I doubt he has much of an opinion on "Climate" one way or the other, aside from what parish Greenies tell him. Bless their hearts.
Therefore I'm looking for articles which will take a recognizably Catholic point of view (i.e. opposite of Bishop Blair's boilerplate Earth Day cheerleading) --- distinguish between prudential judgments and moral absolutes, explain the limits of episcopal competence, and generally equip us against Enviro-Fraud, IPCC totalitarianism, and Eco-Idiocy.
I've heard that Benedict XVI had some good stuff about a non-Leftaroo, prudent Stewardship and Biblical Creation Care in several encyclicals, but I need to know exactly where to find it.
Please send me your best links to articles I could link to, crib from, or be guided by.
You know what I'm talkin' 'bout.
Trusting your quick minds and good judgment.
That is the exactly wrong thing to do.
How long do you think your pastor will allow that? Due you think he'll let you publish the Oath against Modernism, also?
The exception would be where you don't have enough priests to have a resident priest for each parish, so you have "clusters" where there's one priest for several parishes. In such cases you'd typically have a "pastoral team" in each parish responsible for administration, and this could be composed of deacons, sisters, maybe even officers from the parish council (elected laypeople) --- but they would all be under the authority of that one priest, the pastor.
I hope I haven't been confusing.
One thumb, two thumbs, many thumbs up!
It's the whole algore-able, mega-politicized, EPA-dictatorship, Global Weather Command and Control, or pantheistic misty-poo we have to smack down hard. And if it tries to get up, smack it down again.
Excellent, thanks for these links. Exactly what I’m looking for.
Pell! Yes! Thank you! He’s the bomb.
“I don’t wish to fight my pastor ...”
It’s not fighting, it’s education; he may even be grateful.
Fr. Pete is an intelligent man, a conscientious pastor, and a good ally. We trust each other. That’s worth a lot. Yes, he’ll trust me to do the right thing.
Yes, exactly. I think so. I expect reasonable people to act reasonably.
What I was asking about was, when you kept using the word “pastor”, were you describing a priest.
Most of us are used to Catholics calling priests, priest.
Well, priest = pastor and vice versa, if here’s only one priest at your parish. If you have two priests or more, one might be the pastor, and the others might be retired, assistant pastor, associate pastor, visiting priests, or something else.
Just checking, I’m surprised that you prefer the word pastor over priest, I didn’t know it was that common.
Yup!
The April 22 Earth Day, founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson, was first organized in 1970 to promote ecology and respect for life on the planet as well as to encourage awareness of the growing problems of air, water and soil pollution.
Nelson viewed the stabilization of the nation's population as an important aspect of environmentalism. In his words:
The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become…. We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population. It can be done. But in this country, it's phony to say "I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration."
Does your pastor know that Nelson was not only against immigration but he was pro population control? Does the the USSCCB know that, with its current howl for blanket amnesty?
“Intelligent” isn’t the same as “informed.”
And “stupid” isn’t the same as “dumb”.
Good luck in “informing” Fr. Pete.
But thank you for your wishes of good luck. You might throw in a Hail Mary as well. I'll report later on how it all turns out.
Prayers forthcoming.
bkmk
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