For Pope Leo the reign of Pope Francis was great. He went from Priest, albeit a powerful one and well connected in his Order, to Cardinal. An inhabitant of a Vatican bubble, I suspect he truly has no clue of how anyone could honestly oppose what his mentor and benefactor did. Perhaps he will ultimately chart an independent course, but for now his only goal appears to be more Francis than Francis.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Forever Young…..
I had no idea that the Vatican had their own cryogenics operations, but now it all makes sense, regarding the blessing of the block of Ice.
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I have written the following before, and will write it again for as long as climate change fear mongers persist in their hysterical theatrics.
If Pope Leo XIV, his predecessor Pope Francis, and all the worldly acolytes surrounding them really believe in anthropogenic global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, then they would advocate a complete conversion of our energy economy to nuclear and not waste any time with low capacity factor wind and solar that always requires spinning fossil fuel reserve, and that always tears up vast acreage of land area that should be used for farming, for nature preserves, etc. But they don’t do that, so they don’t believe in what they purport to believe.
Convert all electric power plants to nuclear, use fast neutron burner reactors to consume spent nuclear fuel, obviating the need for a million year geologic respository, build passively safe nuclear power plants that rely on the laws of physics for emergency core cooling and not active safety equipment like emergency diesel generators, safety injection pumps, containment spray pumps, high pressure coolant injection, reactor core isolation cooling, etc. Convert trains from diesel locomotives to electric and use nuclear-supplied electicity to power them. Convert merchant shipping and civilian cruise liners to nuclear propulsion; if the US Navy can safely use nuclear propulsion for aircraft carriers and submarines, then so can the commercial industry. Convert cars, trucks, and aircraft to hydrogen fuel and use nuclear to provide hydrogen from water. The list goes on. All these things are technically fasible. High temperature helium cooled reactors, molten salt thorium breeder reactors, etc. have been built before and they work. Indeed, there is enough thorium in Earth’s crust to power human civilization for thousands of year. And even with existing PWR, BWR, and Candu technology, nuclear still has the lowest mortality rate of any form of energy production per terawatt-hour of electric generation.
All these things are 100% true. But we continue to have a Pope who thinks he gets to opine on subjects outside the purview that God Almighty gave his sacred office. He should shut his mouth about environmentalism and start winning souls to the Kingdom of God. Earth is NOT our home; heaven is. And the third chapter of second Peter says that God will burn up this Earth and all its works with fire, so why in the heck are we so concerned about climate change? Indeed, don’t pollute! Don’t dump your garbage in someone else’s back yard! And the way of doing that is provided above when it comes to energy production. But will the Chicago Pontiff support that? Nope! Why? Because he doesn’t know anything about climate change and energy production, and he prefers to ingratiate himself with the temporal politicial powers of this world.
****And the third chapter of second Peter says that God will burn up this Earth and all its works with fire, so why in the heck are we so concerned about climate change?****
Why?
[To appease Greta Thornburg of course.]👀
Your so right LQC.
“He went from Priest, albeit a powerful one and well connected in his Order, to Cardinal…”
A good young priest said to me of another priest: “he has an important job now, he went to work at the Vatican…”
Stunned, I thought… what could be more stupendous than the ability to change bread and wine into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ?!
I think the devil is busy today having us focus on our temporal earthly home of probation, to have us worshiping creation rather than the Creator yes… but also because time is short and he doesn’t want to loose his-
Yes. I believe your right as well David WS.
Satan’s time is very short. He knows it and is gobbling up as many souls as he can.
Your metion of the Daily miracle is so spot on too.
What a horrible mistake to take the transubstantiation for granted.
Sigh. I used to say I finally understand the French Revolution (in response to government abuses). Now I say “Most of the hierarchy makes me understand the “me and Jesus” approach to the Christian faith.” I’m not saying I approve of it but I am saying I understand it.
What is Latin for “If you stand for nothing you’ll fall for anything.”
@Lead Kindly Light –> Si pro nihilo stas, pro omni re cades.
Pope Iceman I, pontifical climoscare merchant.
@Lead Kindly Light –> Si pro nihilo stas, pro omni re cades.
This IS the black death of Our Era.
The plague that has infected the entire globe.
When Christ returns…we He find faith upon the earth? (poor paraphrasing.)
PN and LQC
Thanks. That’s my next embroidered sweatshirt.
I apologize. I’m at work.
…….WILL He find …..
As a convert, one of the things that drives me nuts about the Catholic Church is that it does not learn from the Protestant experience. Climate change? woman’s ordination? LGBT+ rights? Along with all that goes with that, the Anglican Church says: “been there, done that, look at us now, we have a woman Archbishop of Canterbury to preside over empty churches.” That’s where it all ends, learn from the failed reality that is the Anglican Church, going down that path is death.
“An inhabitant of a Vatican bubble, I suspect he truly has no clue of how anyone could honestly oppose what his mentor and benefactor did.”
Maybe it is well past time for the laity to say so (phrased with respect for the office).
The bishops sure ain’t gonna!!!
Matthew.
My nickel thoughts here.
For two thousand years the struggle over the tiller has not abated. The Ship will not sink. It will reach it’s destination and it will be filled with the cargo that was originally placed on the ship’s manifest…aka The Book of Life.
The image from St. John Bosco, two Pillars keeping the Ship secure during tempests, is a grand sight. The one pillar, Our Lady. The Eucharist being the other pillar. The tempest?
The World.
Arrows, cannon balls, books. You name it, everything is being thrown at the Ship, yet she will not sink. We too must be anchored to the two pillars in our daily tempests.
The helmsmen? He has a job alright.
The fight on the tiller and which way it goes is a battle that we can lend aid to. Our prayers.
Our sacrifices. We ask the Owner to guide His Ship and may His helmsmen be obedient to the Ships Owner.
Hang on and Hold Fast.
Peace.
“A good young priest said to me of another priest: “he has an important job now, he went to work at the Vatican…”
That young Priest is opening up an unnecessary struggle with his vocation down the road. The work eventually stops being “exciting”.
You nailed the problem right there.
What is more important that bringing the Body and Blood to the faithful. Guiding souls to Heaven. Isn’t that the point and the first mission of the disciples of Jesus? St Peter died on the cross (supposedly upside down, unworthy of Our Lords death) and he took nothing with him from this earth.
Ezabelle-
The only way being sent to the Vatican would be an important job is if you were willing to crash and burn there defending the Truth.
Otherwise, you’re just part of the problem.
Matthew, in fairness, where we see so many of those dying denominations at today began ages ago. And it wasn’t when they began accepting this or that change in morals or social teaching. It was because well before they did, they already had accepted the rejection of the historicity of the biblical witness as well as the basic doctrines of the Christian Faith. Long before they said yes to contraception or feminism or abortion or gay marriage or anything contrary to the Faith, many had chucked the basics of the Faith to begin with. That’s what makes me wonder about modern Catholics who are doing the same.
Pantheism. Disappointed.
“Long before they said yes to contraception or feminism or abortion or gay marriage or anything contrary to the Faith, many had chucked the basics of the Faith to begin with. That’s what makes me wonder about modern Catholics who are doing the same.”
The same is true of the Roman Catholic Church. As St. Pius X warned over 100 years ago, (see his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis), all the errors of Modernism, which, it bears recalling, he labeled as “the synthesis of all heresies”, have by now taken over the vast majority of the hierarchy and priesthood. Younger priests are often more anti-Modernist than not, but they are decades away from becoming the hierarchy themselves, so I will never see the Restoration take place on this Earth. Perhaps it will occur before the Apocalypse. In the meantime, the Vatican II Church, Modernist to the core, continues down the dead-end road that commenter Matthew pointed out. All we can do is keep believing what the Church always taught before 1965, keep praying and receiving the Sacraments, and maybe change a heart or two along the way with charity and piety.
The poor, the poor, the poor …without understanding why they are poor.
LQC, it is a waste of time and money to convert diesel electric locomotives to all electric. Double stacked container trains make it a non starter. The Florida East Coast railroad uses natural gas. Other railroads can do the same. It’s better to cook, heat a home, heat water and dry clothes with natural gas. The US has an abundance of it. I would like to have natural gas powered cars….used the gas supply that comes to your home to fill up.
@Penguins Fan, you may be correct. My only point to those who fallaciously regard CO2 as a pollutant is that there are non-fossil fuel alternatives which they simply won’t support.
Lack of energy kills,
Hydro electric kills, but less than lack of energy.
Coal kills, but less than hydro.
Oil kills, but les than coal.
Methane gas kills, but less than oil.
Wind kills, but less than methane gas.
Solar kills, but less than wind.
Nuclear kills, but less than solar.
That all said, I got nothing against gasoline fueled cars, jet fueled aircraft, diesel powered trains and ships, etc. But I everything against climate change stupidity.
BTW, to all Democrats out there in cyber space: if you think CO2 is a pollutant and you want to prevent anthropogenic global warming from such pollution, then stop exhaling.
Leo’s latest remarks indicate that he has no clue about why mass migration is currently occurring and no clue about manifest and potential consequences. Either that or he just wants to see the world burn.
You know you can cross any border in the EU with out an ID check. Europe has been a precursor to the shift in the global mentality in why we should secure and protect sovereign borders.