More environmental nonsense from our eco Pope:
In a message to mark the Catholic church’s World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation that he launched last year, Francis said the worst impact of global warming was being felt by those who were least responsible for it – refugees and the poor.
The pontiff used the occasion to revive many of the powerful issues he highlighted a year ago in his provocative encyclical on the environment, Laudato si’, and his latest message seems certain to rankle conservatives.
Francis described man’s destruction of the environment as a sin and accused mankind of turning the planet into a “polluted wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth”.
“Global warming continues,” the pope said. “2015 was the warmest year on record, and 2016 will likely be warmer still. This is leading to ever more severe droughts, floods, fires and extreme weather events.
“Climate change is also contributing to the heart-rending refugee crisis. The world’s poor, though least responsible for climate change, are most vulnerable and already suffering its impact. ”
The pope said the faithful should use the Holy Year of Mercy throughout 2016 to ask forgiveness for sins committed against the environment and our “selfish” system motivated by “profit at any price”.
He called for care for the environment to be added to the seven spiritual works of mercy outlined in the Gospel that the faithful are asked to perform throughout the pope’s year of mercy in 2016.
“We must not be indifferent or resigned to the loss of biodiversity and the destruction of ecosystems, often caused by our irresponsible and selfish behaviour,” he said. “Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their very existence … We have no such right.”
Go here to read the rest. Do you suppose that the Pope ever ponders the damage he does to the faith of Catholics who do not share his views on environmental issue? If he does, presumably his response is, in the Spanish equivalents, “Tough.”, “Serves them right.” or words to that effect. And on that sad note, PopeWatch will be taking a Labor Day hiatus until next Tuesday.
Soros did not have to buy off this man. He is already in the bag for Soros’ goals.
The world today has more laws, rules and regulations to protect the envoirnment than ever. Not enough for Jorge, though.
Some decades ago, Pittsburgh native and enviro fraudster Rachel Carson published Silent Spring. Carson accused DDT of thinning birds’ eggs so the baby birds would not survive. As a result the world banned DDT. The Ninth Street Bridge is named for Carson.
Carson used junk science. DDT was wiping out malaria infected mosquitos. Now we are faced with the spread of the Zika virus.
Carson should have a pothole named for her, not a bridge.
“Do you suppose that the Pope ever ponders the damage he does to the faith of Catholics who do not share his views on environmental issue?”
Perhaps, he takes the same view as the Curé d’Ars did of those who did not share his views on dancing:-
“You say that I shall achieve nothing by talking to you about dances and that you will indulge neither more nor less in them. You are wrong again. In ignoring or despising the instructions of your pastor, you draw down upon yourself fresh chastisements from God, and I, on my side, will achieve quite a lot by fulfilling my duties. At the hour of my death, God will ask me not if you have fulfilled your duties but if I have taught you what you must do in order to fulfil them. You say, too, that I shall never break down your resistance to the point of making you believe that there is harm in amusing yourself for a little while in dancing? You do not wish to believe that there is any harm in it? Well, that is your affair. As far as I am concerned, it is sufficient for me to tell you in such a way as will insure that doing this I am doing all that I should do. That should not irritate you: your pastor is doing his duty….”
Michael PS,
I assume the Cure didn’t dance himself. Here are Pope Francis’ less than necessary trips….mostly involving airplane fuel in excess of that used by moi and most in an entire lifetime.
the link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pastoral_visits_of_Pope_Francis_outside_Italy
“That should not irritate you: your pastor is doing his duty”
If only MPS the Pope were doing his duty to Christ instead of the current global leftist agenda!
thoughts:
The heavens declare the glory of God!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ZN-PEizgE
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Regarding MPS’ quote of St. John Vianney……my take is that Catholics are not Puritans. Catholics can dance (well, I tried to dance salsa with my wife and just stepped on her feet), enjoy adult beverages and have stained glass images, polychrome statues and a crucifix in churches and none of it is offensive to God. Drab is NOT a Catholic virtue. Recall the Hilarie Belloc ism:
Where ever the Catholic Sun do th shine
There’s always laughter and fine red wine
At least I’ve found it to be so
Benedicamus Domino!
I drive a car with a four cylinder engine and a clutch (I despise automatics….for able bodied people they are the devil’s doing). I take the bus to work and home. I replaced the furnace, air conditioning and water heater. Nobody in our neighborhood puts out as much for recycling as my household. I need no ecological lectures from the Roman Pontiff.
“For the Holy Spirit was promised to the successors of Peter not so that they might, by his revelation, make known some new doctrine, …” -Pastor Aeternus, 1870, dogmatic constitution.
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Increasingly, I find this pontiff’s choice to create new doctrines and new moral imperatives absolutely irreconciliable with [what we used to call] the Sacred Deposit of Faith.
As Papa Francisco continues to convert the Catholic Church into a wing of the UN and its one-world agenda—he actually quotes this “movement in formation” in his 9/1/16 address:
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“I am gratified that in September 2015 the nations of the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, and that, in December 2015, they approved the Paris Agreement on climate change, which set the demanding yet fundamental goal of halting the rise of the global temperature.” (“Show Mercy to Our Common Home, Sept 1, 2016 address)
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There is also PF’s desire to force political redistribution of wealth:
“One concrete case is the “ecological debt” between the global north and south. Repaying it would require treating the environments of poorer nations with care and providing the financial resources and technical assistance needed to help them deal with climate change and promote sustainable development.”
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…So, whenever persons come out with grandiose plans and addresses like these, I have found an interesting analysis to calculate: to count the number of times that the speaker of such addresses makes references to God, Jesus Christ, and—human nature being constant—himself,(of course, the most interesting topic to PF). Other than the final prayer, “God” is mentioned 5x’s, Pope Francis uses “I/me” 5x’s….and Jesus Christ (who?) gets no mention at all. There you have it.
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Or,, you can compare PF’s address yesterday with the UN doc “Our Common Future, From One Earth to One World”. Remarkable concordances with PF’s Laudato $i and “Show Mercy for Our Common Home”.
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http://un-documents.net/ocf-ov.htm
Penguins Fan wrote, “[M]y take is that Catholics are not Puritans…”
In general, that is true. However, there has always been a strand in French Catholicism that would regard Calvin as a worldling, because he permitted the inhabitants of Geneva to play boule.
The tendency is often attributed to Jansenism but, in fact, it pre-dates it; it goes back to Cardinal de Berulle, Charles de Condren, Jean-Jacques Olier and St Jean Eudes. Jansenism, however, adopted it and reinforced it.
The believed that the only way to bring people to repentance was to bring home to a man “his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.” The great obstacle was « divertissement » that is diversions and distractions; this explained the reckless pursuit of pleasure and the wonton neglect of all public and private duties (in which they believed, as people often do, that their own age exceeded all others).
Hence, the wagon-loads of sermons against dancing, the theatre, novel-reading, card-playing and other amusements.
MPS….given that my Catholic heritage comes from Poland, and Germany to a lesser extent…..drinking, dancing and card playing were never discouraged.
My German/Scot grandfather owned bars, grew his own grapes to make his own wine, engaged in the adult beverage business during Prohibition and belonged to every ethnic club in the mid Monongahela Valley. Did I mention that his home was never without adult beverages? To him, alcohol was not a sin….preaching against it was.
My Polish great Grandpap had a shot of whiskey before going to bed for almost 80 years.
No priest ever told them a drink was sinful….and pity the fool who would have.
I doubt the man ever gives voice to a non-derivative thought. You have to figure whichever dicastery drafts his public statements is now manned by quondam mid-level apparatchicks from some UN agency, leavened with veterans of the PR staff at the Carter Center along with Mary Robinson’s erstwhile chief of scheduling.
“We must not be indifferent or resigned to the loss of biodiversity and the destruction of ecosystems, often caused by our irresponsible and selfish behaviour,” he said. “Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their very existence … We have no such right.”
A bit of hubris to my mind. “Humans bad; single-celled organisms better than man” is the mantra for those calling for population control. Why does PF buy into the UN?
Contrasted that to .Anzlyne’s link to the God’s universe video which was humbling.
A petition at noon Mass today was for the “Victims of Global Warming”. Thought it was just San Francisco until reading here that today is World Prayer Day for the Care of Creation.
Had to laugh at a drawing in Chinatown of BHO in ChiComm garb a la Marxist Mao.
http://www.barnhardt.biz/2016/09/02/new-antipope-bergoglio-buzzphrase-triumphalism-of-the-species/
The Church’s ultimate trial
Good one FMShy- this is a trial for us and the whole Church- but, the heavens do declare the glory of the Lord, and even the rocks will cry out! As the whole mess reveals itself more and more, I get more and more of a sense of hope- it no longer seems like the sins and heresies of the last couple of thousand years, but more definitive and in line with what can be expected.
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Penguins Fan
Even the French School never criticised drinking. in France, wine is considered an indispensable aid to digestion and have scriptural authority for it (1 Tim 5:23). Even prisoners receive 250 ml (about 2 glasses or 1/3 of a bottle) with lunch and dinner.
In France (and in Ireland under French influence), this austere morality was particularly congenial to the Petit Bourgeoisie, the same class that embraced Calvinism. As Mgr Ronald Knox observed of their English counterpart, “A class that has to be frugal, has to maintain a certain standard of respectability, that is excluded from the freer activities of the landed gentry, easily develops and clings to a tradition of Puritanism. There is no room for it in the theatre; it is too poor for the dress circle, too refined for the pit. It has no money to waste on racing or on gambling; it is too superior to join in the rough dances of the countryside, too provincial to acquire the manners of the ballroom.”
It never gained ground among Scottish Catholics; crofters and fishermen have little leisure for dissipation and their clergy, self-supporting, was drawn exclusively from the Highland gentry.
I guess if Pope Francis can talk about saving the environment we can talk about saving the Catholic Church. Somebody’s got to do it!
With all the sins that could and are being committed and not brought into focus, the current Pope pontificates on what is at best marginal science and part of an ageing world: adding more guilt to drive the already guilt-ridden folks into “safe spaces”. Bravo!
@.Anzlyne, Thank you! What amazes me is that the innovators/the enemies try [and how they try!] even when they know that they are on the losing end. They cause terrible misery on earth and they themselves are the damagers of it. Above all, they cause souls to be lost. No one can longer dispute that the pope is always looking for openings [even where obviously there are none] to dismantle the Faith rather than confirm his brethren in it. Paraphrasing Bp. Tobin, I suppose the one who encourages “making a mess” he himself can proclaim “mission accomplished” by the agitation and confusion he creates in the Church and beyond.
“We must not be indifferent or resigned to the loss of biodiversity and the destruction of ecosystems…”
No doubt, but as Mgr Ronald Knox reminds us, “God’s mercy, doubtless, is over all his works, but we are in no position to apply teleological criticism to its exercise, and to decide on what principle the wart-hog has survived while the dodo has become extinct.”
Such concerns often seem like a revival of the exploded Argument from Design: “Design implies the adaptation of means to ends; and it used to be confidently urged that there was one end which the Creator clearly had in view, the preservation of species, and one plain proof of his purposive working, namely, the nice proportion between the instincts or endowments of the various animal species and the environment in which they had to live. The warm coats of the Arctic animals, the differences of strength, speed, and cunning which enable the hunter and the hunted to live together without the extermination of either–these would be instances in point.. The argument was a dangerous one, so stated. It took no account of the animal species which have in fact become extinct; it presupposed, also, the fixity of animal types.”
“The pope said the faithful should use the Holy Year of Mercy throughout 2016 to ask forgiveness for sins committed against the environment and our “selfish” system motivated by “profit at any price”.”
Well, you know even recycling businesses are in it to make a living. Our town has a plant that recycles scrap steel – big business. A local cement plant used to burn old tires for fuel, I don’t know if they still do. They also use(d) coal. Citizens can still get a small amount of money for aluminum — but now locally they want for some reason to have soft drink cans separated from pet food cans. More work and separate bags.
The city has a fee added to the water/sewer bill to pay for recycling. (Senior citizens get it for free). Local recycling won’t take #6 plastic (like foam cups). I don’t know why — I can’t do anything about that. The town recently changed to a different recycler. They do “clear bag” recycling, which means that instead of re-using the recyclable plastic bags you get from the store, you have to go to Wal-Mart or Ace Hardware and buy a box of made in USA “clear bags” for recycling. Now I just use the recyclable store bags for the inside wastebaskets and guess what, they go into the landfill. You’re not supposed to recycle paper or cardboard with food residue ex, pizza boxes, so guess what, that goes in the landfill. It’s all quite a bit of time-consuming work. Recycling is good, but if other priorities arise in life, I’d say it goes toward the bottom of the list, sinful or not. I think I put out at least as my recycling each week as trash — I currently don’t generate a lot of garbage.
I wonder, did the Pope mention composting at home ?
In VA most grocery stores have bins outside for recycling plastic shopping bags. The bags are sorted by color and combined with sawdust from sawmills or furniture factories to make TREX, a long wearing attractive decking material. There are other similar brands.
There are also bags and plastic water bottles made from corn cellulose which are recyclable.
In the garage of my son’s apt in SF I discovered besides the many recycle bins and a large open garbage bin there is a compost bin. I have to check online but I think that’s where the pizza boxes, coffee filters, tea bags and paper food wrappers go. Supposedly on the SF streets there are closed composting bins for dog poop.
My gripe is the $10 plus charge for recycling electronic appliances when you know the recyclers are obtaining precious metals from them.
CAM wrote, “My gripe is the $10 plus charge for recycling electronic appliances…”
Perhaps, the answer is something like the EU Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (2002/96/EC) The Directive provided for the creation of collection schemes where consumers return their WEEE free of charge, encourages recycling and re-use. The ultimate duty is imposed on the manufacturer.