Posted on 12/21/2015 9:34:06 AM PST by marshmallow
ROME, December 18, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - A heated exchange regarding global warming and magisterial teaching between a top Vatican official and various other presenters ended a December 3 Acton Institute conference in Rome. Argentinean Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, a close advisor to Pope Francis and the Chancellor of both the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences stressed that the pope's declarations on the gravity of global warming as expressed in the encyclical Laudato Si' are magisterial teaching equivalent to the teaching that abortion is sinful.
Father Joseph Fessio, SJ, the founder of Ignatius Press who obtained his doctorate in theology under Joseph Ratzinger prior to his elevation to the pontificate, told LifeSiteNews, "Neither the pope nor Bishop Sorondo can speak on a matter of science with any binding authority, so to use the word 'magisterium' in both cases is equivocal at best, and ignorant in any case." Fr. Fessio added, "To equate a papal position on abortion with a position on global warming is worse than wrong; it is an embarrassment for the Church."
The conference, "In Dialogue with Laudato Si': Can Free Markets Help Us Care for Our Common Home?" was held at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross with over 200 attendees including members of the media, professors, and students of the Pontifical Universities.
The controversy was sparked when in his address Bishop Sorondo spoke of "global warming" saying that in Laudato Si "for the first time in the Magisterium" Pope Francis "denounces the scientifically identifiable causes of this evil, declaring that: 'a number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases released mainly as a result of human activity.'"
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Shades of Galileo! I guess the Church didn’t learn its lesson during the Galileo controversy.
This Pope sure has appointed a lot of heretical jerks to key positions in the Church, while putting some of the best bishops into exile.
I pray for the Church every day.
And I hope Protestants will pray for us, too. Because there should be no true pleasure from outright heresy in any Church. We need all the decent Christians we can get, working together to defeat the Nazis and Communists who are bringing down Western Civilization.
Let’s hope that the Pope’s cockeyed “Climate Change” droolings are taken as seriously as his abortion proclamations.
By the way, has this pope EVER issued a proclamation against abortion?
” We need all the decent Christians we can get, working together to defeat the Nazis and Communists who are bringing down Western Civilization”
Stuck in 1944, are we?
Not really. He met - in secret! - with the Sisters of the Poor when brought here to the US BY his hero-in-chief (the communist Obola when he (the Pope) was needed by Obola’s climate change publicity prior to the Paris conference.
In public, the pope never criticized Obola NOR Obola’s demands for forcing abortion payments on everyone in the US, and only squished ANY form of pro-life words into Obola’s demands for citizenship for all illegal Mexicans and Central Americans now inside our border as criminals.
Now, he (the pope) continues to use Obola’s illegal Muslim invaders (er, “Syrian refugees”) as excuses to call for even more illegal aliens to be paid to come into Obola’s voting booths for the democrats.
However, this pope is right: The more illegal aliens who come over, the more illegal aliens are in many catholic church pews. Not many contributions, but a lot of people sitting in his church pews. Many demanding services and charity from working US taxpayers.
The same can be said of Bergolio's election.
This is such NONSENSE!
TOTAL NONSENSE, in fact.
That is a really stupid pronouncement. When climate alchemy is finally invalidated, the Church's life imperative will be rightly called into question, based on this official equivalency.
This pope is just another pathetic totalitarian globalist. Apparently he has not read, or understood, The Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Uh....NO! It is NOT!
The concept of man impacting the weather is FASCIST NONSENSE.
There is large scientific consensus that embryonic stem cells are absolutely necessary in research and cure for many diseases. This extend to Christian scientists as well as non-Christian. The church is opposed to such research. Does it seem a contradiction that on global warming it defers to scientific consensus while with stems cells it defers to its own prerogative on morality. If not, then the people who opposed Bishop’s Sorondo position are correct.
Twit
NOT!
. . . the pope's declarations on the gravity of global warming as expressed in the encyclical Laudato Si' are magisterial teaching equivalent to the teaching that abortion is sinful.
That is a really stupid pronouncement. When climate alchemy is finally invalidated, the Church's life imperative will be rightly called into question, based on this official equivalency.
The same goes for their 100% commitment to evolution, but they refuse to see it. And evolution has been (for all practical purposes) "magisterial" for almost a century.
No, it is not and no airhead Jesuit is going to make it so.
No, it is not and no airhead Jesuit is going to make it so.
This is why I am not looking forward to Christmas dinner. That, and there are Catholic priests (according to FR) doing gay marriages.
This planet has been around a few zillion years and we've only been taking scientific data on the climate for a couple of hundred years. We have not a clue as to long term forecasts or ramifications.
Who knows if some sun millions of light years away will affect our solar system.
With the gamma streams making galaxies, who knows what will become of us. Saw that on "How the Universe Was Made" the other night.
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