Posted on 02/10/2017 4:00:47 PM PST by markomalley
You can imagine my shock as a Catholic when I read a passage from the father of the modern, pro-abortion population control movement where he denounces faithful Catholics as “terrorist[s].”
Here is what pro-abort population controller Dr. Paul Ehrlich in his 2014 book Hope on Earth: A Conversation:
“Thus you have ‘God-fearing’ people trying to maintain their rigid positions, especially trying to control the lives of women. I consider that their rigid opposition to something so basic, so critical to the future of life on Earth, as controlling reproduction to be just as unethical as any major affront to the environment or terrorist act.”
And there it is. For Ehrlich, Catholics who oppose contraception and abortion do so because of their “rigid positions.” In fact, maintaining such a position is so abhorrent to Ehrlich that he thinks it’s morally equivalent to a “terrorist act.”
Ehrlich, who has vehemently hated the Catholic Church until Pope Francis came along, has now been honored by the Vatican to present a paper on saving the world from extinction at an upcoming conference.
The implications of this invite cannot be underestimated.
Writes Michael Pakaluk in Crux Now: “Erhlich do[es] not simply contemplate abortion and contraception for population control: it is [his] main message. To invite [him], therefore, to speak on the practical question of population is implicitly to embrace [his] ethical commitments.”
When reading Ehrlich’s above passage, I was struck how it reflected a theme faithful Catholics have recently been hearing from Pope Francis.
For more than a year, Francis has denounced faithful Catholics who are concerned about how he is leading the Church as being what he calls too “rigid.”
The pope says such Catholics are too concerned about following the 10 commandments. They start traditional orders that promote “rigidity.” They are attracted to the ancient Latin Rite because of an “attitude of rigidity.” They are “heretical” for holding with “rigidity” that the Church teaches “this or that,” “black or white.” Hundreds of such condemnations he has made could be added to this list. If you thought this pope was a gentle, humble man who simply got along with everybody, sorry, but you’ve been sorely misled.
As a Catholic, I find it deeply concerning that such a renowned enemy of the Church as Ehrlich has been honored with a platform at the Vatican.
Idiot Pope.
Maybe this brew of coffee will finally wake up the Catholics who still back this pope?
Then again, probably not...
Francis is beginning to remind me of Barack. Lord help us all.
Why did he single out Catholics? Muslims and other groups also don’t practice birth control, so what gives?
This heretic Bergoglio is now inviting someone who openly hates all Catholics to speak at the Vatican?
I am sorely disappointed that so many Catholics are sitting on their hands as this evil man wages war against them from within the holiest walls of the RCC.
“Thus you have ‘God-fearing’ people trying to maintain their rigid positions...”
...and there’s that word “rigid” again.
Paul Erlich! I remember when he used to appear on the Johnny Carson show. For someone who is so concerned about the size of the human population, he sure has held on to his place in it for a long time.
Considering the present pope, Erlich’s getting an invite to the Vatican makes complete sense.
Yep, Ehrlich has been around and a good number of pro-lifers know his deeds, he wrote the “Population Bomb”
Catholics won't kill him, He's a coward, and Muslims kill Catholics.
IIRC, Paul Erlich predicted that the world would end about 1975 due to mass starvation. He is however, an expert on butterflies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXpGagzEvw
Me and Bergoglio down by the synod - (Paul Simon parody)
You can’t make this shit up.
Where is the Catholics’s Trump?
I didn’t know that the Vatican served “nuts” with the holy wine? Something new or just the fact that an Argentinian Marxist is the pope?
Leftists always have their priorities straight (or crooked, as the case may be):
This was not an invitation from a Catholic to a non-Catholic; it was an invitation from a Communist to another Communist.
Maybe the Holy Spirit is giving Pope Francis just enough rope to hang himself here! Pope Francis is probably to far in the tank with Satan to realize otherwise? When our Lord finally says “begone Satan!, the pope will also be included then!?
I don’t know exactly what this is about. I read the article but the Vatican just had this Chinese fellow go to the Vatican; and the Vatican was at odds with this guy, he was there to talk about organ harvesting which the Vatican was definitely against.
Maybe this is just to invite people with different views.
G. K. Chesterton
I didn’t know that the Vatican served “nuts” with the holy wine? Something new or just the fact that an Argentinian Marxist is the pope?
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