Learning how to speak and write “in Catholic” would be a vast improvement for our Pope.
PopeWatch: Speaking Synod
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Ya gotta love it. He’s concerned that not taking care of the planet (that climate /Ghia stuff) is what’s pagan? Does this pope even know how to spell “salvation” since he hardly, if ever, mentions it–never mind prepare his sheepfold for it?
Worship of nature or “mother earth” would seem to be a clear form of pagan idolatry. But failing to “take care of the climate”, whatever that means? Perhaps laziness, or a form of sloth, or bad stewardship. But paganism? I’m confused. Please explain.
This likely won’t end well. It generally doesn’t with an old queen. However, and just maybe, like Oscar Wilde, he’ll convert on his deathbed.
Amen to that hope, FOS.
It strikes me that the smaller, more spiritual Church he mentioned is indeed on the way. But it won’t consist of people like him and his BFF’s. Both of his most recent predecessors already opined on what that remnant Church will look like. My money is on their vision, not this guy’s.
One additional thought: In 1970, according to CARA, there were 805 men ordained priests in the US, from a Catholic population of 47.9 million. In 2021, for a Catholic population of 66.8 million, there were 441. As far as I can tell from quick searching, no US diocese or archdiocese ordained more than nine new priests in 2021.
And how is the diocese of Jorge Maria Bergoglio doing? One ordination last year, according to a social media post I saw from Sandro Magister awhile back. Inspiring, isn’t it?
From La Civita Cattolica’s transcript:
“Not taking care of the climate is a sin against the gift of God that is creation. For me it is a form of paganism: it is using what the Lord has given us for his glory and praise as if it were an idol. Not taking care of creation for me is like idolizing it, reducing it to an idol, detaching it from the gift of creation. In this sense, taking care of our common home is already ‘evangelizing.’”
On the one hand, that mess makes no sense at all. OTOH, the sense it does make is appalling in its falsity.
How does one take care of the climate? Also, funny he has Hypocrisy thrown into the mix. Again, no self-awareness. None.
I posted that without comment because I couldn’t make heads or tails out of it myself. I could see the idea of stewardship of creation, that makes sense. Respecting all of creation, as created by God. But failing to respect creation wouldn’t mean treating creation like an idol, it’d mean treating it like an object. Idolizing is above respect, not below it.
God takes care of the climate! It is presumptuous, arrogant and a sin to think that man has charge. (It’s also against science, but that’s only a minor sin.)
The climate scam is one of the most lucrative cons in World History.
US billionaire, globalist oligarchs and the CCP are stealing trillions $$$ from us.
“God takes care of the climate!” Thank you, Bob, for stating the obvious that seems to elude the Holy Father. If there has ever been a time in the history of the earth in which us mere mortals have prevented/influenced the “climate” ie. natural floods, tsunamis, typhoons, bushfires, droughts, tornadoes, cyclones, blizzard and even the run-of-the-mill thunderstorms then I will gladly jump on the climate bandwagon. The climate exists in all it’s glory and not because we humans tell it to. Its arrogant and stupid of those that think otherwise. Anyway, climate change is just another fad industry intent of capitalising on a hoax. There’s people getting wealthy peddling this man-made climate nonsense.
Agian…the Climate change that is monumental in Christ’s mind is man’s heart. Conversion of men’s hearts is the most important work on this blue rock hurdling through space.
All else are distractions.
Just revisit the Passion of the Christ if you doubt my words.
Pope Damage Control will have much work to do when Francis vacates.
God help us.
Pope John Paul II Quotes;
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.