"Here I stand, I can do no other."
Posted on 12/29/2014 5:11:50 PM PST by ebb tide
You know the Catholic Church is in trouble when the left-wing Guardian refers to Francis as the “superman pope.” He didn’t earn this dubious honor just by brokering Obama’s embrace of the communist slave state in Cuba. He has promoted state-inflicted poverty by attacking economic freedom and is now pushing the global warming hoax:
In 2015, the pope will issue a lengthy message on the subject to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, give an address to the UN general assembly and call a summit of the world’s main religions.
The reason for such frenetic activity, says Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, chancellor of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, is the pope’s wish to directly influence next year’s crucial UN climate meeting in Paris, when countries will try to conclude 20 years of fraught negotiations with a universal commitment to reduce emissions.
Reducing emissions reduces our standard of living. It does not reduce temperatures, as if they needed reducing. The global warming hoax has already been definitively debunked. According to the bogus theory it is based on, skyrocketing carbon emissions should result in corresponding temperatures. Yet temperatures have remained level for the past 18 years.
Nonetheless, the hoax is still seen as useful by those with hard left political agendas, who see it as a pretext to impose oligarchical collectivist authoritarianism. Except during extreme weather events that will happen no matter what, these power grabbers do not have the climate on their side. But they do have the Pope.
Following a visit in March to Tacloban, the Philippine city devastated in 2012 by typhoon Haiyan, the pope will publish a rare encyclical on climate change and human ecology. Urging all Catholics to take action on moral and scientific grounds, the document will be sent to the world’s 5,000 Catholic bishops and 400,000 priests, who will distribute it to parishioners.
According to Vatican insiders, Francis will meet other faith leaders and lobby politicians at the general assembly in New York in September, when countries will sign up to new anti-poverty and environmental goals.
It is no accident that the “anti-poverty” (i.e., anti-capitalism) and environmental goals are mentioned together. Free market capitalism has done vastly more to lift people out of poverty than any other system in history. Consequently, destroying it so as to replace it with Soviet-style serfdom requires more than just tired and empty rhetoric about the poor, who will be far more numerous and far more poor if leftists are able to prevent the creation of wealth.
In recent months, the pope has argued for a radical new financial and economic system to avoid human inequality and ecological devastation. In October he told a meeting of Latin American and Asian landless peasants and other social movements: “An economic system centred on the god of money needs to plunder nature to sustain the frenetic rhythm of consumption that is inherent to it.
“The system continues unchanged, since what dominates are the dynamics of an economy and a finance that are lacking in ethics. It is no longer man who commands, but money. Cash commands.
“The monopolising of lands, deforestation, the appropriation of water, inadequate agro-toxics are some of the evils that tear man from the land of his birth. Climate change, the loss of biodiversity and deforestation are already showing their devastating effects in the great cataclysms we witness,” he said.
It is hard to say who would applaud this sophomoric rhetoric more enthusiastically: Al Gore or Karl Marx.
Note the emphasis on “human inequality.” People cannot be both equal and free, at least not in an economic sense. Holding everyone but the unavoidable ruling elite to a lowest common denominator has never increased the standard of living for the masses and never will.
The days of Jean Paul II confronting communist tyranny have never been more missed.
The cheering leftists at the Guardian refer to “Francis’s environmental radicalism.” Given its explicit elevation of the nonhuman over the human, there has never been a more un-Christian ideology than environmental radicalism. The Pope praising the Devil would not be more appalling.
People of weak faith believe that Christianity needs to get with the times or become obsolete. This will not be accomplished by chaining the Catholic Church to a hoax that an increasing percentage of the population can see through to its malevolent authoritarian objectives.
But I have noticed that those who use the media to put words in the Holy Father's mouth understand that those who consume media generally look for that which they want to believe and leave satisfied if they find it.
This is why Martin Luther walked away.
Nothing ever changes.
Were THESE words put in his mouth?
m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/pope-franciss-radical-rethinking-of-environmentalism/374300/
A loyal Catholic must obey a Pope when he speaks “ex cathedra” on the subject of faith or morals. When he starts to discuss politics, economics, social science, or other worldly topics he becomes just another individual with access to a wide audience and can be wrong. Catholics of course will be respectful but are on firm moral ground to diametrically disagree with his positions.
Ping
Did you read the article?
Is THAT ever the truth...
It’s not hearsay. Pope Francis announced shortly after taking office that he was going to write an encyclical on “the environment,” and that he was going to meet with the UN and “world religious leaders” regarding this. It was ignored at the time because he was doing other freaky things that had people concerned and occupied the attention of most Catholics.
It’s certainly possible that he’ll say some good things, come out against population control, support economic development, etc. In my opinion, it’s not very likely, but I’m still trying to stay optimistic.
In any case, the Church has the promise of Our Lord, and even if it’s just us laypeople and a couple of rejected “conservative” bishops who have to rally and get out there and call the Pope to order (as did Catherine of Siena in her day) or support his removal, it will happen.
I can remember a time not long ago in which Popes actually advocated for MORE freedom, not less.
“But I have noticed that those who use the media to put words in the Holy Father’s mouth understand that those who consume media generally look for that which they want to believe and leave satisfied if they find it. “
I think it’s called Confirmation Bias, and it is used frequently. Obama’s entire 2008 campaign was based on confirmation bias, where he said generalities or even nothing and his followers filled those blanks with their own belief.
Yeah, they were masters.
"Here I stand, I can do no other."
Popes have written on "the environment" before, though please pardon me I have no citation yet either of us could satisfy the question with a quick search.
Remember when they reported that he was going to loosen up on gay marriage and women priests? On abortion?
He's the most slandered man in the world. What really creeps me out is how people who claim to distrust the media all of a sudden find it perfectly credible when it lies about the Catholic Church.
I think that, if/when and "anti-Pope" arrives, your Catholic friends will know it before you do. And before CNN does.
Why is this excuse used every single time he says something unpopular?
correction: “...if/when an antiPope arrives....”
Can you tell us exactly what he said?
He has not written an encyclical by himself since he became pope. He essentially cowrote one with Benedict. When his encyclicals come I will pay more attention to his words.
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