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There is nothing UnChristian about not polluting bodies of water. I have a REALLY Old Catechism - "The Catechism of Perseverance," a four volume collection written by The Abbe Gaume. In one part of it, one would swear the leftists had rewrittten part of the text. Then one realises the left found that fertile ground (pun intended)unattended because the "conservative" Christians had swallowed the "progess" of capitalism with its "necessary" collateral damage to the environment and abandoned sensible stewardship of the Earth.

When was the last time any of us Christians have even heard of the great Fr.Vincent McNabb and "Nazareth or Social Chaos?" We can't expect the left to leave any open avenue to power untrammeled. It is a Christian duty to care for the land and not befoul nature.

I think everything in this story is cause for Joy and Hope

In one part of it, one would swear the leftists had rewrittten part of the text. Then one realises the left found that fertile ground (pun intended)unattended because the "conservative" Christians had swallowed the "progess" of capitalism with its "necessary" collateral damage to the environment and abandoned sensible stewardship of the Earth.

I don't think the leftists have hijacked the environmental issue. It is a clear teaching of the Church that we must be stewards of the environment. (It's covered in the New Catholic Cathecism under the Eighth Commandment - "Thou shalt not steal.") Granting that leftists nowadays have more to say about stewardship than "conservative Christians," the real problem is that leftists have pretty much left out human beings as part of the environment. The extremists justifies abortion as negligible because "humans are a renewable resource."

The left even attempts to steal St. Francis to their side, distorting his "Canticle of the Sun" to say, "Praise be to you, our Mother Earth," when what St. Francis really wrote was, "Praise be to You (God) for our sister, Mother Earth." A big difference there. Probably why Askel would rather first see what kind of environmentalism the Easterners espouse. Considering the current culture, one can't be too careful.

When was the last time any of us Christians have even heard of the great Fr.Vincent McNabb..?

My husband grew up in the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic in Ditchling, Sussex, England. His parents were silversmiths who were Third Order Dominicans, and were converts to Catholicism by Fr. McNabb, and so my husband has a pretty good grasp of distributivism. It was Utopia, of course, but it didn't last long. I can't say the concept is dead, probably just needs a bit of updating. The guild apparently could not compete with mechanized labor.

I think everything in this story is cause for Joy and Hope.

I pray and hope so, too. God bless.